MAY 2007: DISPATCHES
BEND
Hang onto that pink slip. Employees at Columbia Aircraft
Manufacturing Co. should not have to wait long to get their
jobs back. The company, founded in 1984, produces about four
planes per week. About 185 workers were temporarily laid off at
the end of March, as the company tightened its management tiers
and streamlined the manufacturing process. Wan Abd Majid was
hired as Columbia’s new CEO, replacing Bing Lantis,
according to Randy S. Bolinger, spokesman from the company.
Once the manufacturing process is refined, Bolinger says,
furloughed employees will get their jobs back sometime in
mid-May.
Quirky specialty grocery store Trader Joe’s announced
plans to open a location in Bend. The store, located in the
Cascade Village Shopping Center, will be the first in Central
Oregon. Alison Mochizuki, director of national publicity for
the Monrovia, Calif.-based company, confirmed the new store
will be 13,000 square feet. “There are lots of foodies
there,” she says, highlighting one of the draws of
building in Bend.
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