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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Anna Sowa / The Bulletin
September 4, 2006
When Alison Hamway moved to Central Oregon in 1992, she said Bend was still a mill town, with millworkers represented by mill unions.
From the time mills unionized in the 1940s to when they started to close decades later, union members and workers united to hold an annual Labor Day picnic to....