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The Summit High School girls soccer team bested Bend rival Mountain View High for the Class 5A title in a match played in Hillsboro on Saturday. Summit won 1-0 on a goal by senior Eve Hess for the first girls soccer title in school history. For full prep soccer coverage, see Sports, Page D1.
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Also known as R.D. Mitchell, of Bend
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Bendโs R.D. Mitchell, 66, undergoes his annual beard and hair styling Friday at the hands of Linda Bradley, owner of The Hair Gallery of Bend โ part of his transformation into a shopping mall Santa for the Christmas season. Strong fumes from the bleaching chemicals used on Mitchellโs beard require him to breathe through a straw for a portion of the 21โ2 -to-3-hour styling session. Below, bleach solution is removed from his eyebrows, and Bradley puts the finishing touches on his hair.
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On Nov. 3, as city councilors prepared to make a potentially historic decision to approve one of Bendโs largest-ever infrastructure projects โ one that could cost up to $73 million โ John Maxwell stood before them to defend his company. Maxwell works for HDR Engineering Inc., the firm hired by the city to design a massive upgrade to the Bridge Creek water system that provides half of Bendโs annual water supply. That project includes replacing about 10 miles of aging pipelines, building a state-of-the-art treatment facility to meet federal clean-water mandates and possibly installing a hydropower plant to generate green energy. In particular, Maxwell was concerned about the perception that HDR, an international engineering firm with nearly 8,000 employees, had a financially vested interest when preparing a recently released study, which found the city would save more than $400 million over 50 years if it overhauled the Bridge Creek system rather than switch to an all-well-based system to pump groundwater. That study had been criticized by some, including local attorney Bill Buchanan and Old Mill developer Bill Smith, who thought the numbers in the comparison were flawed and believed a move toward groundwater would be much cheaper. See Water / A5
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By Erin Golden The day before he was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife, Steven Blaylock stopped by the southeast Bend bar where heโd been a regular for years. By then, Lori โWoodyโ Blaylock had been missing for almost two weeks. Police had searched around the coupleโs home with scent dogs, and friends and coworkers from St. Charles Bend, where Steven she worked as Blaylock a respiratory therapist, had turned out to look for any trace of the 48-yearold woman. On Nov. 9, the day Steven Blaylock went to the Reed Pub Company, detectives were still calling the case a missing-person investigation. But to anyone passing by the coupleโs home on Northeast Genet Court, it seemed that investigators suspected foul play. Parked outside the house, draped with yellow police tape, was an Oregon State Police forensics truck. At the bar, when someone asked how he was doing, Blaylock admitted that things werenโt going very well. For a while, he laughed and joked with friends, but then his mood shifted. โHe was just sitting there, staring off into the distance,โ said bartender Lanora Hill. โYou could tell something was wrong.โ The next day, he didnโt show up to the Reed Pub. Instead, the regular crowd at the bar watched in shock as they saw the news on TV: Steven Blaylock was in jail. On Nov. 18, Blaylock, 46, was indicted on one count of murder. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday. Meanwhile, his friends and co-workers say theyโre still reeling from the news of Blaylockโs arrest. See Blaylock / A7
Critics: Conflict in Bend water study
working Santa Claus since 1992, R.D. Mitchell ditched his fake beard in favor of the grow-your-own approach 10 years ago. But looking good doesnโt come easy.
Mitchellโs hair and beard grow in quickly โ he stops shaving and cutting his hair each June โ but a little too much black still pokes through his naturally silver beard for him to really look the part. So every fall, he spends a few hours in the stylistโs chair for a touch-up before heading out on the road as part of a team of โreal-beardedโ Santas sent to various locations around the country.
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When Congress passed the health care law, it envisioned doctors and hospitals joining forces to coordinate care, with the prospect of earning government bonuses for controlling costs. Now, eight months into the new law, there is a frenzy of mergers involving hospitals, clinics and doctor groups eager to share costs and savings. And consumer advocates fear the law could worsen some of the very problems it was meant to solve โ by reducing competition, driving up costs and creating incentives for doctors and hospitals to stint on care, to retain their cost-saving bonuses. See Health care / A7
On Wednesday, he flies to New York to assume his role as the official Santa at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Itโs an unpleasant and foul-smelling process, Mitchell said, but the results speak for themselves. โI like to have it all done so it looks good, so I look like I really am Santa Claus,โ he said. โBecause I want to be the best I can be.โ โ Scott Hammers, The Bulletin
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