 We're local with a global reach, connecting our clients to their customers across the continent and beyond. Visit smithbates.com or give us a call to see what we can do to help. Smith Bates, we make you look really good. In 1968, in a one-room building off East Main Street, a new idea took root. One of Oregon's first community-based employment centers established solely to provide employment services for people with developmental disabilities and severe handicaps. Today,