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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Ernestine Bousquet / The Bulletin
November 6, 2005
POWELL BUTTE - When Phil Weigand's family bought a 200-acre farm in Powell Butte in 1934, the rural community was a mishmash of family farms, Powell Butte Highway was a dirt road and power still hadn't arrived.
Seventy-one years later, Phil Weigand and his wife, Jo, both 75, still live on his....