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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
July 17, 2005
Rich Ekman remembers with fondness the summers of his youth: warm, sunny days in pre-boom Bend, most of which were spent on ball fields and sandlots around town.
"Sports were our lives," he recalls. "We'd go to baseball practice, then we'd come home and play Wiffle Ball for hours....
