• Avalon Salon, an Aveda beauty salon, recently opened in the Old Mill District at 330 SW Powerhouse Drive in Bend. Salon services include hair coloring and cutting, waxing, skin care and aromatherapy facial treatments.

• Sun Country Tours, professionally guided, whitewater rafting tours, is scheduled to open for its 38th season on May 1.

• Gillian Rowley recently launched Get Global Marketing, an online marketing and website development company based in Bend. Get Global Marketing offers website development, SEO and social media marketing services for the hospitality industry.

• Cascade Tel, a Central Oregon telecommunications provider, has been invited to attend Technology Assurance Group’s annual convention in Chicago. Allan Clack, Cascade Tel president, will share his insight on technology and business management at the event.

• Central Oregon Locavore is moving to 1841 NE Third St. in Bend and expects to open its new location May 4.

• Slick’s Que Co., of Sisters, has been named to National Barbecue News’ list of “Best of the Best Barbecue Restaurants in America.”

• GreenSavers, of Portland and Bend, has been selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a winner of the 2016 Energy Star Contractor of the Year award. Of 2,100 contractors nationally, GreenSavers is one of six winners of the award.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon was awarded the national Gold Standard last week for program quality and excellence by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. The Central Oregon agency ranked in the top 7 percent of Big Brothers Big Sisters agencies nationally.