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By Joseph Ditzler
clients might be exposed to in
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this evolution of new recreation-
Kesgard moderated a panel R-Bend, and others. discussion on legal marijuana The Oregon Liquor Control PRINEVILLE — Two of Cen- al product," said Pat Kesgard, a and the real estate business in Commission is expected to tral Oregon's largest commercial partner and principal broker at Oregon for a roomful of real es- have temporary regulations for real estate firms will not broker Compass Commercial Real Es- tate brokers at Meadow Lakes marijuana business operations leases for landlords or tenants tateServices,in Bend."We have Golf Course. The panel included in place by January and perlooking to rent property for mar- decided that we will not repre- Prineville City Councilman Ja- manent rules in place by June. ijuana-related businesses, their sent a tenant or a landlord in a son Carr, city police Capt. Dale The OLCC begins accepting lirepresentatives said Friday. lease (for a marijuana-related Cummins, planning officials cense applications for marijua"We took a very active role business). We' ve conferred with from Prineville and M adras, na growers, processors, retailers about a year ago to evaluate the our attorneys and we' re just not and Jefferson and Deschutes and wholesalers Jan.4. risk that our company and our going to go there." counties, state Sen. Tim Knopp, See Pot/A4
'Apprentice' candidate — How Donald Trump's run for president is informed by his
visit 'is about the families' By Maria L. La Ganga Los Angeles Times
ROSEBURG — It would be hard to find
a time and place that better encapsulates the United States in 2015 than Friday in this tiny timber town 180 miles south of Portland. President Barack Obama flew in on
reality TV stint.Al
Marine One shortly after noon on a con-
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this grief-stricken community, where
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victims of last week' s mass shooting at Umpqua Community College. Nine dead. Nine injured. "Mourning in Roseburg," read the headline in Friday's (Eugene) Register-Guard. Marine One was met by a phalanx of
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A cassette tape of an interview with Bill Miller of Miller Lumber is kept in the Des Chutes Historical Museum. The collection is being digitized for accessibility and preservation.
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Vacation rental woes hit hard in party towns By Ron Lieber New York Times News Service
AUSTIN, Texas — The
houses are often among the nicest on the block, or at least the biggest. They new ESSAY co nstruction
maybe
where a small-
er structure once stood, or an extensively renovated home with cheery paint in shades of yellow or blue.
• Oral histories at the Des Chutes Historical Museumare being digitized By Beau Eastese The Bulletin
Going to the grocery store was a big deal when TW. Vandevert was a kid. "We'd take two teams — six horses and two wagons — and head on over to Eugene for groceries," recalled Vandevert in a 1953 radio interview. The Vandeverts, one of Central from Bend's early days will soon Two sets of oral histories are Oregon's first pioneer families, be available to download from being digitized by the museum. In homesteaded land south of what the Deschutes Public Library sys- celebration of Bend's 50th anniwould eventually become Bend in tem as part of a joint oral histories versary in 1953, Cannon recorded 1892 when Thomas William Van-
project with the Des Chutes His-
demonstrators out-
side of Roseburg Regional Airport, some carrying holstered pistols, most waving signs with similar messages: "United
Inside • See photos of Klondike Kateand others whose oral history recordings are being digitized for posterity,A6 • Listen to a selection of the recordings at bendbnlletin.corn
We Stand ... Obama
We Fail." "Can you hear me now'? Go Home!" "Don't Mess With My Guns!"
SeeObama/A5
Inside • Photos, plus the latest on the shooting,A5 • More gun violence on college campuses,A2
a series of 15-minute interviews
devert was 8 years old. "It was a 21-day round trip,"
torical Museum. for Bend radio station KBND, and "People have heard these names the museum has 43 of the original Vandevert told KBND broadcast- before," said Nate Pedersen, presi- old reel-to-reel tapes. The museum er Kessler Cannon more than 60 dent of the Deschutes County His- also has a collection of more tradiyears ago. "We took a load of wool torical Society. Pedersen is also a tional oral histories and panel disover and brought back groceries. community librarian at the down- cussionsfrom the 1970s and '80s ... We were loaded both ways." town Bend library branch. "Now on cassette tape conducted by local Cannon's interview with Vandevert and other local leaders
they' ll be able to connect place
A House with no Speaker?
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historian Joyce Gribskov.
names with personalities."
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But then the telltale
signs appear, including an electronic touch pad on the door that makes
it easy for people to get in without a key. The ads
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on HomeAway or Airbnb eventually confirm it: A
By Tom Curry CQ-Ron Call
party house has come to the neighborhood. Some neighbors have warmed in recent years to travelers dragging suitcas-
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terse about the election of a new speak-
er: "The House of Representatives shall
es through their residential
neighborhoods, and they are happy that the visitorsspread theirmoney around. But when prof-
choose their Speaker
furnish homes they do not
and other Officers." It doesn't address what might happen if the House is unable to choose a speaker,
live in to make them at-
or if there's a pro-
tractive to big groups and then rent out those houses as much as possible, par-
longed vacancy. In the confusion
it-seeking entrepreneurs
Thursday that
ties and noise are nearly inevitable.
followed House Majority Leader
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And so it goes here in Austin, where a group of enraged and occasionally sleepless residents have
Kevin McCarthy's
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announcement that he was bowing out of the speaker election,
taken their complaints to
Speaker John Boeh-
the city. Austin created
ner, R-Ohio, reiterated that he would
rules in 2012 that were
supposed to keep shortterm rentals under control, but the neighbors argue that many of the rules are
continue to serve until the House elects
a replacement. SeeSpeaker/A6
Executive Director Kelly Cannon-Millerlooks through cassette tapes in the oral history collection at the Des Chutes Historical Museum on Thursday. "We'd like to take those oral histories, distill them down, clean them up and get them to be succinct stories," she said.
unenforce able. This week, I rented one
of the most notorious party houses in Austin and invit-
ed some of the neighbors over for a chat to ask a few questions. See Rental /A4
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