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July 1, 2020 • VOLUME 27 • ISSUE 13 Can Less Be More? Page 25 Recreation Tour Companies Resume Sunriver Boasts Unique Blend of Operations Beauty, Business & Buoyancy Sunriver • La Pine Spotlight — Pages 11-16 by RONNI WILDE — CBN Reporter unriver is more than just a recreational suburb of Bend. The Sidyllic mountain town is a resilient community with a strong business base that is bouncing back quickly from the effects of COVID closures. Families are flocking to Sunriver to escape bigger cities, whether for a weekend retreat or as a potential new place to call home. “The Sunriver business community, despite being highly dependent on tourism, has shown great resilience and adaptability during the COVID-19 MT. BACHELOR OFFERS A VARIETY OF SUMMERTIME shutdown, and we are coming back ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING HIKING ON SCENIC TRAILS | PHOTO strongly as our economy begins to open COURTESY OF MT. BACHELOR up,” said Kent Elliott, executive director by RONNI WILDE — CBN Reporter of the Sunriver Area Chamber of OVID may have rocked our world, Commerce. “Most essential businesses but Central Oregon is still a mecca have remained open, and for the most Cfor outdoor recreation, and no part, residents have been able to obtain virus can take that away! While we may many of the services they need without have to follow some new rules when having to go to Bend. Phase Two is now recreating side by side with others, no COFFEE WITH A VIEW | PHOTO COURTESY OF SUNRIVER RESORT one can question that there is a plethora PAGE 12 of things to do here beckoning us to get outside, and local tour operators can help us get out there and safely enjoy the freedom and peacefulness that nature — and adrenaline — can provide. New Chapter for Bend’s Moonlight BPO As with everyone else, tour companies and other recreation-related businesses Acquisition Set to Revitalize Full-Service Print & Mailing Provider have endured a roller-coaster ride over the past three months, but now, most by SIMON MATHER — CBN Feature Writer are back up and running and report that business is beginning to boom again. These nature guides are excited to get us back out adventuring, and have put all the required safety measures into place to help us do so. Staff members are back, and customers are cautiously returning to find some much-needed stress relief. “There’s no better solution to COVID and overcoming our cabin fever than being outdoors in fresh mountain air! The collective sigh of relief I have witnessed in the last few weeks is remarkable,” said David Nissen, founder and president of Wanderlust Tours in Bend, which offers half-day naturalist-guided tours, trips and activities year round in Bend, Sunriver and Sisters. “When recreating outdoors, just maintain distance, respect the ecosystem and clean up after yourself and others PHOTO | COURTESY OF MOONLIGHT BPO while you are out there.” ong-time Bend-based secure print and mailing Grigsby by Lakewind Investments, helmed by mergers and When the COVID closures first happened, specialist Moonlight Business Process Outsourcing acquisitions experts Rob and George Van Vliet. tour companies and other recreation- Lis looking to widen exposure to its services Lakewind is known for providing private capital for based businesses had to shut down following the company’s acquisition by an Indiana-based business and real estate investment and for specializing since they were not deemed “essential.” investment group. in acquiring niche companies with growth and “value- “Numbers-wise, Q1 2020 started out quite Moonlight BPO, which was at one time known as add” potential. well until March 16, when we determined Moonlight Mailing, was first established in Bend in 1985 Following the takeover, a spokesman commented, that the necessary response to COVID was and has been purchased from long-time owner Brenda “Lakewind Investments is an investment firm founded PAGE 17 PAGE 23 Bend, Oregon www.cascadebusnews.com PERMIT NO 473 NO PERMIT 541/388-5665 BEND OR BEND Bend, Oregon 97701 Oregon Bend, PAID 404 NE Norton Avenue Norton NE 404 US POSTAGE US PRSRT STD PRSRT Cascade Business News Business Cascade 2 • Cascade Business News • July 1, 2020 Business & Industry The Producers INSIDE Founder. ...................... 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Principal Broker Brian Fratzke, CIM on a new Crux Pop-Up experience at represented the Seller. The 280 unit storage facility sold at a 6.43% capitalization rate. Riff’s Taproom at the Box Factory in Compass Commercial Real Estate Services broker Terry O’Neil, CCIM and