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AP--Raising his voice over a cacophony of hammering and drilling, Mike McMenamin explains why he and his brother Brian make a seven-hour roundtrip journey from Portland every Wednesday to watch construction crews in Bend tear apart and rebuild the 68-year-old St. Francis of Assisi School.
"Some people would say we're way too involved," he shouts, gesturing around at the project that will soon be the latest in a string of pubs to carry the brothers' name. "But that's just the way we are. We're hands on."
Hands on or not, it seems to work. The Old St. Francis School, as it's called at McMenamins Inc., will open this fall as the 53rd in the company's empire of pubs, theaters and hotels stretching along the Interstate 5 corridor from Roseburg to Mill Creek, Wash.
The Bend complex will be the first east of the Cascade mountains but merely one more in a series of historic renovations for the company.
"They are legends," Paul Shipman, founder and president of Seattle's Redhook Brewing Co. said of Mike McMenamin,...
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