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• Details on the offer are still under wraps By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

back Mirror Pond. The more than 100-year-

to dredge it or otherwise ad-

Park & Recreation District Executive Director Don

from PacifiCorp to local con-

Horton, Bend city Councilor

declined to comment on the

mudflat. Last week, the three mem-

Victor Chudowsky, and cit-

bers of the Mirror Pond Ad

specifics of the offer Wednesday, citing nondisclosure agreements they signed with PacifiCorp. SeeDam/A5

dresstheproblem toprevent the pond from turning in to a

Local officials have prepared an offer they intend to

old dam has been central to several years of ongoing

izen member Ned Dempsey

submit to PacifiCorp to take

discussions about silt accumu-

Hoc Committee who form its

— drew up an offer that would transfer ownership of the

control of the dam holding

lation in the pond, and how

negotiating subgroup — Bend

dam and surrounding lands

trol. Chudowsky and Horton

Libraries are stuck between

Taco Bell deliveryTheNo. 1 thing their customers asked for: It's coming to more than 90 cities.C6

lf that's not yourthingSometips to keep healthy eating convenient.B1

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Ear cleaning —InIndia, a street vendor will do it for you. But it's a tough business.A6

By Michael S. Rosenwald The Washington Post

The hallmark of public libraries — the printed book, bound by covers and centuries of page-turning — is being shoved aside by digital doppelgangers. Around the country, libraries are slashing their

And a Wed exclusiveTwoveterans, taking care of each other after a war's tollbut one is a dog. benttbunetin.cern/extras

print collections in favor of

e-books, prompting battles between library systems and print purists, induding not only the pre-pixel generation but also digital natives

EDITOR'5CHOICE

Craft sake is latest trend that's brewing

who represent a sizable por-

tion of the 1.5 billion library visits a year and prefer print for serious reading. Some of the dashes have been heated. In New York, protesters out-

side the city' s main branch

haveshouted:"Save the stacks! Save the stacks!" In Northern Virginia, the Fairfax

By David Sharp The Associated Press

Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin

County library system

Veterinarian Jeff Cooneyand Laura Hardy, a veterinary student fromWestern University, treat a bald eagle at High Desert Wildlife

chief recently mused that

Rescue and Rehabilitation east of Bend. The adult female eagle has a wounded left wing and is being treated with antibiotics, anti-inflammatory and pain medications as well as replacement fluids.

the Friends of the Library were no longer friends — a feud fueled by outrage over a print collection that

are hoping to transform the so-called "rice wine"

By Dylan J. Darling

to haul an animal — arrived.

has shrunk by more than

into the next artisan alcohol-of-the-moment in the U.S. Dan Ford, whose Maine-

A bald eagle found injured by Wickiup Reservoir faces a long recovery if she is to ever fly again. While X-rays Wednesday show the large female bird does not have any broken bones, her left wing needs

Although unable to fly, the bird was trying to es-

300,000 books since 2009. The drop in D.C. is even

cape into the woods, said

more dramatic: Nearly 1

Deschutes County Sheriff's Sgt. Vance Lawrence. He

million books have vanishedsince2009. "To say Gutenberg's days are over is a temble mistake," said Dennis Hays,

KITTERY, MaineFirst came boutique winer-

ies. Then microbreweries and craft distilleries. Now Japanese sake aficionados

made sake is just hitting the market, has bet his retirement savings that con-

sumers will be sold on his premium sake once they give it a try. "We see it as a market that's untapped," said Ford, who developed a taste for

sake while working in Japan, then later returned there to learn from a sensei,

or teacher, before launching Blue Current Brewery,

The Bulletin

Namethatdaldeagle High Desert Wildlife Rescueand Rehabilitation in Bend is taking name suggestions for a baldeagle found injured Tuesday near Wickiup Reservoir. Sendsuggestions to info©highdesert wildlife.or g. For more information about the nonprofit group, go to www. highdesertwildlife.org and to report an injured animal, 24 hours a day,call 541-241-8680.

time to heal from a possible

nician Josh Barker easily caught up with the bald eagle. "Big birds like that, they

electric shock injury, said

don't run," Lawrence said.

JeannetteBonomo, vice

president of High Desert Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation east of Bend. "It's going to be a long process if she survives," Bonomo said. The reha-

been injured when she landed on a power pole and came into contact with pow-

trieve the bird. A U.S. Forest Service law

"They just kind of hop." The key to the capture

enforcement officer and a

er lines.

Deschutes County Sheriff's

turned out to be a small blanket Barker had with

Someone headed to Wickiup Reservoir on Tues-

law enforcement technician stepped in to help. Bonomo

day afternoon found the

said the Forest Service offi-

one of about a dozen craft

a year, with the bald eagle

bald eagle with an injured wing alongside South Cen-

cer located the bird and kept track of her until the De-

producers operating — or gearing up to — in North

likely to lose and then re-

tury Drive. Bonomo said

schutes County tech — who

grow flight feathers on the wing. The bird may have

her pickup was in the shop so she was not able to re-

handles animal complaints and whose truck is equipped

America.

said Law Enforcement Tech-

bilitation could take up to

a former U.S. ambassador

and chairman of Fairfax Library Advocates, a group of residents at war with library

him, which he draped over

officials. "Nothing can take the place of a book." Librarians are feeling the heat. "We' re caught

the bird and then scooped her up. He then put her into

between two worlds," said Darrell Batson, director of

a large carrier in the back of

the Frederick County Public Libraries system in Mary-

his truck and brought her to the rehabilitation center east

of Bend.

land, where the print collec-

tion has fallen 20 percent SeeEagle /A5

since 2009.

Sake has been around

SeeLibraries/A5

for centuries in Japan, but

consumption has dropped in recent years. Meanwhile, it's ticking upward in North America, benefiting from the overall popularity of Japanese foods — from ra-

The mad scramble to get off the GOPdebate bubble

men and soba to sushi and yakitori — as well as riding

By Will Leitch

the trend of consumers

Bloomberg News

seeking far-flung flavors and artisanal products. Premium ginjo sake is nothing like the rough-tasting stuff sometimes served warm at low-end sushi

shops, craft brewers say. Top-notch sake — best served chilled — has a clean flavor profile that can be full-bodied and robust or light and fruity, some-

In the month before college basketball's NCAA tournament bracket is announced,

thereisa m adscramble for dozensofteams togetoffthe bubble. Top-tier teams like Duke

SeeSake /A5

worry about the bubble; they' re comfortably in the tournament.

It's the ones who are in slots 32-44, fighting for one of

the tournament's 36 at-large

bids, who spend that last

TODAY'S WEATHER

times with a subtle hint of

licorice.

and Kentucky and Michigan State don't have to

t

Afternoon t'storm High 85, Low 57 Pag e B6

ANALYSIS month in a state of constant stress and panic: The tournament is so important that

if you make it, your season is vindicated, and if you don' t,

it's as if your season didn' t happen at all.

This madness, in a unique set of circumstances that may never bereplicated,has

debate organizer would ever have to fit more than 10 people on a stage. So, Fox News and

extended itself to this year' s

CNN, who are hosting the first

Republican primary season. There are currently 14 people officially running for the Republican nomination for pres-

two debates on Aug. 6 and Sept. 16, respectively, have designed a solution: Only 10 make the cut. SeeDebate/A4

ident, the first time that any

The Bulletin

INDEX Business Calendar Classified

C5-6 Comics/Puzzles E3-4 Health D1-6 Obituaries B2 Crosswords E 4 H o roscope D6 Sports E1-6 Dear Abby D6 Lo cal/State B1-6 TV/Movies

B5 C1-4 D6

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