Bulletin Daily Paper 11/19/10

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La Pine water plant, rodeo site included in bills package By Keith Chu

Rethinking forest rules on dogs Deschutes officials collecting input on how dogs should share recreational areas By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin

Some told of getting knocked over by dogs or having to pick up after other people’s animals. Others talked of the need for additional skiing areas for dog owners or better off-leash access to the river in summer — or said they like things the way they are now.

More than 150 people attended a U.S. Forest Service open house in Bend on Thursday evening to talk about off-leash dogs in the Deschutes National Forest. They talked to Forest Service recreation staffers, giving their opinions and ideas on how dogs should share summer and winter trails. “It helps us formulate how to go

forward,” said John Allen, Deschutes National Forest supervisor. Currently, dogs must be kept on a leash in the summer on several popular trails, including the Deschutes River Trail and some trails in the Three Sisters Wilderness. In the winter, dogs are not allowed on the ski trails north of the highway, but people can ski with dogs at

Wanoga Sno-park and Edison Snopark, both south of the Cascade Lakes Highway, and the Skyliner Sno-park along Tumalo Creek. The Bend-based group DogPAC has advocated for a new area for people to ski with their dogs, and for the easing of restrictions of dogs off leash. See Dogs / A5

Weigh in To comment on the issue of dogs in the Deschutes National Forest, e-mail rgyorgyfalvy@fs.fed .us or atinderholt@ fs.fed.us. Comments must be received by Dec. 2.

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WASHINGTON — A top U.S. senator is readying a package of bills that includes a proposal to transfer about 900 acres of federal land to local governments for a new La Pine wastewater treatment plant and future south county rodeo grounds. The package being assembled by Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman, DN.M., is likely the best chance of passing the assortment of wilderness and other public lands bills before the end of the year, when all unfinished legislation gets scrapped. And Inside although the • A look at La Pine bill is a land bills near certainty in Oregon, to be included, Page A5 it’s uncertain whether or not a bill to create a new wilderness area in northern Jefferson County will make the cut. The package will include all of the roughly 60 bills that have already been debated and passed by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said spokesman Bill Wicker. The La Pine bill would transfer two U.S. Bureau of Land Management parcels to Deschutes County: a 750-acre block on the east side of La Pine and a 150-acre piece west of the city. The larger parcel would eventually go to the La Pine Special Sewer District for a site to expand its current wastewater treatment system. The smaller parcel would ultimately go to the La Pine Park and Recreation District and provide a permanent site for the La Pine Rodeo, Frontier Days and perhaps serve as practice grounds for La Pine High School’s equestrian team. See Land / A5

THE BLAYLOCK TRAGEDY

Husband indicted By Erin Golden The Bulletin

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Remembering ‘Woody’ Blaylock Friends, co-workers and family members of Lori “Woody” Blaylock, left, the 48-year-old Bend woman who has been missing since late October, gather for a candlelight vigil Thursday evening in Bend’s Drake Park, above. Blaylock was reported missing on Nov. 2 by her co-workers at St. Charles Bend, where she had worked as a respiratory therapist for 17 years. Her body has not been found, but her husband, Steven Blaylock, was arrested Nov. 10 in connection with her disappearance. On Thursday, a grand jury indicted him on one count of murder.

On the Web: If you missed Sunday’s profile of Blaylock, see www.bendbulletin.com/blaylock

In a bid to remain relevant, libraries start a new chapter By David Sarno Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Kathy DeGrego’s T-shirt lets you know right away she isn’t an old-school librarian. “Shhh,” it says, “is a fourletter word.” That spirit of bookish defiance has guided the makeover of the suburban Denver library system where DeGrego works. Reference desks and study carrels have been replaced by rooms where kids can play

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“Guitar Hero.” Overdue book fines have been eliminated, and the arcane Dewey Decimal System has been scrapped in favor of bookstore-like sections organized by topic. “It’s very common for people to say, ‘Why do I need a library when I’ve got a computer?’” said Pam Sandlian-Smith, director of the seven-branch Rangeview, Colo., Library District. “We have to reframe what the library means to the community.” See Libraries / A4

Hero dog is euthanized by mistake after escaping from yard in Arizona By Marc Lacey New York Times News Service

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Target, right, relaxes with another of the dogs who stopped a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, after being brought to the U.S. in July.

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FLORENCE, Ariz. — When a suicide bomber entered a U.S. military barracks in Afghanistan in February, it was not American soldiers but Afghan stray dogs that confronted him. Target and two other dogs snarled, barked and snapped at the man, who detonated his bomb at the entrance to the facility but did not kill anyone. The dogs were from the Dand Aw Patan district, in the eastern Paktia province near the Paki-

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stani border. One died of wounds suffered in the blast, and months later, Target and the other dog were flown to the U.S. by a charity and adopted by families. Target — who received a hero’s welcome, including an appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” — went to live with the family of Sgt. Terry Young, 37, an Army medic who witnessed the animals’ bravery and helped treat the dogs and several wounded U.S. soldiers. The glory, though, was shortlived. See Target / A4

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The Bend man suspected of killing his wife and leaving her body in the North Santiam River was indicted Thursday on one count of murder. A Deschutes County grand jury convened to consider evidence in the disappearance of 48-year-old Lori “Woody” Steven B l a y l o c k Blaylock handed down the indictment against 46-year-old Steven Paul Blaylock after two days of testimony. The document notes that prosecutors consider the murder an act of domestic violence. Grand jury proceedings are secret and not open to the public. Steven Blaylock was arrested on Nov. 10 on suspicion of murder, assault and tampering with evidence, a day after police served a search warrant on his home, three vehicles and a trailer found at a residence in Silverton. See Indicted / A5

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