Bend Foundation Honors Bill Smith
The Bend Foundation is honoring longtime Bend civic leader, development visionary and Old Mill originator William Smith, who passed away in November of last year, with a $40,000 donation to a previously established scholarship endowment started by Smith and his family at the Central Oregon Community College (COCC) Foundation. The gift recognizes Smith's 40 years of dedicated trustee service to The Bend Foundation and the greater community, while furthering a cause he cherished. Smith and his widow, Trish, have been ardent supporters of higher education on the high desert for decades, cham...