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Money Worries Keeping You Up at Night? Talk to a Certified Financial Advisor for Free on May 1 & 2 at the Madras Site
[April 26, 2024] Finding high-quality, affordable financial advice is surprisingly tough in Central Oregon. Fortunately, Bright Wood people will have the opportunity to meet with a certified financial advisor from the Marshall-Amato-Buxton Group on May 1 and 2 in the Madras main office.
Your 20-minute appointment is free and confidential. Call 541-475-7799 to sign up soon because the appointments are going fast.
Dan and Conner can help you with these and many other financial topics:
Your Bright Wood 401(k) Account:
Personal Financial Planning:
Bright Wood Thanks Benefits Fair Attendees with $50 Gift Cards to Local Grocery Stores
[April 11, 2024] Bright Wood is giving all associates who attended a Benefits Fair in Madras, Redmond, and Prineville a $50 gift card to a local grocery store.
“Thank you to all who attended a Benefits Fair,” Maggie Morales, Personnel, said. “It was a great success, and we hope to see even more attendees next year.”
Fifteen lucky raffle winners also won prizes from Mid Oregon Credit Union, Standard Life Insurance, Aflac, Dreams Realty Group, Empower, Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Costco.
Benefits Fair attendees can expect to receive their gift cards and raffle prizes in the next few weeks. If you have questions, call Madras Personnel at 541-475-7799.
60-Year-Old Tuition-Assistance Program Still Helping Bright Wood Families Today
[May 19, 2023] Bright Wood’s Children’s Educational Tuition Assistance Program (CETAP) provides financial assistance for post-high school education ranging from college to trade school for employees’ dependent children.
The company has distributed over $1 million in CETAP funds since the early 1960s when founder Carl Peterson established the program.
Contact Bright Wood’s Personnel Department at 541-475-7799 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to learn more and apply.
Eye Safety Starts Before You Get Out of Your Car
By Jim Sanders, Safety Manager
[March 9, 2023] Bright Wood has suffered 17 recordable incidents in the last three years involving an object in someone’s eye. In other words, five to six people suffer eye injuries annually.
History shows the majority of our eye injuries occur outside. If everyone wore their eye protection as soon as they arrived at work (before leaving their vehicles) and continued wearing it until they returned to their cars after work, we’d all be a lot safer. This is in fact, Bright Wood policy.
Making Prescription Safety Glasses Affordable
[August 22, 2022] Oregon Bright Wood associates are now eligible to purchase prescription safety glasses from Walmart’s Vision Centers in Redmond and Bend at a substantial discount.
Bright Wood will pay for the prescription lenses for your new safety glasses while you are only responsible for purchasing the frames, which run from $9 up to $29.
To participate, you need to present the Walmart Vision Center with:
Call Bright Wood’s Personnel Department at 541-475-7799 with questions.