Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Help Support CAN Cancer

Please help us ‘Pitch – In’ for CAN Cancer.

CAN Cancer, Community Assistance for Neighbors with Cancer, was founded by the Central Oregon garbage haulers to help ease some of the financial pressure for local people being treated for cancer. Fighting cancer affects the entire family’s lifestyle. Your support can make difference.

Since the launch of CAN Cancer in 2009, over $80,000 has been raised, helping over 300 patients throughout Central Oregon with gas cards, lodging, utilities, groceries, rent assistance and more.

Customers received a purple CAN Cancer envelope from their local garbage hauler in their March billing statements. If you did not receive an envelope and would like to make a donation, please go to http://www.cancancer.org/.

100% of your donation stays in Central Oregon and 100% of every dollar goes to the CAN cancer program.

For more information, please visit http://www.cancancer.org/.

Thank you for your support!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

City of Bend Utility Billing Department has Moved

The City of Bend Utility Billing Department has a new location for Bend Garbage & Recycling customers who use this location to pay their garbage bill.

The new drop off location is 639 NW Franklin Avenue, Bend.

The department's lobby hours will continue to be 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. - Monday through Friday.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Bend Garbage & Recycling Employee Finds Dog in Trash Container

On Saturday, March 10, 2012, employee Paul Becker of Bend Garbage & Recycling and Deschutes Transfer was delivering a load of trash from the Alfalfa Transfer Station to Knott Landfill. As Paul was monitoring the trash come out of the drop box container, he noticed something moving and discovered it was a dog crawling out of the mounds of garbage. Paul quickly came to the rescue of the dehydrated and disoriented dog.

Leo is a 13 year old Australian Cattle dog and was missing from his family in Alfalfa since March 6. Brian Stone who operates Deschutes Recycling at the landfill took Leo to the Humane Society of Central Oregon where they were able to match his description with a missing dog report from Leo's family.

Nobody knows how Leo got in the 50 yard drop box trash container but he is a very lucky dog and resting well with his family.