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Life on Mars? — New evidence could confirm the presence of liquid water.A3

• 2 groups promise ballot measures if Legislature fails to raise it

CIOSe quarterS —What

By Taylor W.Anderson

happens whenthree water polo teams have toshare one pool?C1

The Bulletin

Raise the Wage, one of two groups that might ask voters to

SALEM — A top Democrat-

ic lawmaker and a coalition of unions and other groups made dear Monday that either the

Military gear —Howpolice departments are dealing with military-supplied rifles and other weapons.B1

raise the minimum wage, filed a ballot measure Monday to raise Oregon's minimum wage to $13.50 an hour by January

Legislature will raise Oregon's minimum wage to the highest in the nation, or Oregon voters will decide for themselves in

The proposed measure would also change a statewide law that prevents local govern-

November of next year.

ments from setting their own

2018 over two years.

$Current 9.25 g13.50

wage limits, a move that would allow urban areas like Port-

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What Raise theWage What 15 Now Oregon wants to changethe wants to change the state minimum state minimum wage to wage to

land to exceed $13.50 if they decided to do so. That measure

will also compete with a separate measure that seeks to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour; either rate would give Graphics inside Oregon the highest minimum • See how Oregon's minimum wage stacks up against the nation, AS hourly wage in the nation. SeeMinimum wage/A5 • How Central Oregon compares to the rest of the state,AS

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More than 260 volunteers headed into the woods west of Bend on Monday to build nearly 4 miles

By Abby Spegman The Bulletin

of mountain bike trail in a single afternoon. The effort was coordinated by outdoor retailer REI, which is hosting an annual meeting for store managers from around the country in Sunriver this week.

By Katrin Bennhold

Fred Boyle, Central Oregon Community College's longest-serving president who helped grow the college and raise its profile early on, died Saturday. He was 87. Boyle arrived at COCC

New York Times News Service

Gale Orcutt, outreach

BAMBERG, GermanyWhen Hasani Kleart and 173 others were bused in

coordinator with the Bend REI location, said the man-

from asylum homes across

ees from the local store and

hire the best faculty, con-

Bavaria, the first of about

members of the Central Oregon Trail Alliance to

ducting national searches and requiring candidates

build the trail. Orcutt said REI has

to have master's degrees.

full of excitement: fresh-

frequently partnered with

team that looked at ways

ly painted apartments, sprawling lawns, a state-ofthe-art playground, even a basketball court.

COTA on trail projects,

to offer upper division and graduate courses.

1,500 migrants to move into newly converted army barracks, they had been

Few paid attention to the sign written in German at the entrance: Arrival and Repatriation Facility.

"Are they building a school for our children?" 22-year-old Mirela from Kosovo, who would only give her first name, asked hopefully as she explored the grounds with her husband, a builder, and her daughter. But by lunchtime on their second day there, the news had spread. Kleart,

a 20-year-old student from Albania, had been denied asylum that morning, just two hours after pleading

agers joined with employ-

in 1967, shortly after the

campus in Bend opened. As president, he pushed to

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In the early 1980s, he led a

donating $5,000 earlier this year and providing volun-

That led to the creation of the Central Oregon

teer labor on projects near Bend and Prineville. The trail, to be named "Catch and Release," will

Consortium for Higher Education and later to Or-

egon State University-Cascades, where students who

run roughly parallel to Forest Road 41, linking the

had earned an associate

Tyler's Traverse and Storm

degree could continue on and earn a bachelor' s degree. "My feeling was that

King trails to the Forest Service Welcome Station under construction along Century Drive.

Fred was exactly what we needed at the time for

Jade Mayer, chairman of COTA, said the new trail

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will improve connectivity

Ben Johns, of Seattle, works on clearing a section of the "Catch and Release" trail with fellow REI between the Phil's Trail employees Monday afternoon. The new trail will connect the Storm King and Tyler's Traverse trails complex to the west of Cen- to the new Cascade Lakes Welcome Station.

tury Drive and the Wanoga complex to the east. Currently, both Tyler's

Traverse and Storm King

public in time for "The Event

end at Road 41. Riders on

Formerly Known as Biketoberfest" — COTA has clashed

his case. Soon he would be

either trail looking to con-

with a Florida group over the

on a plane home. SeeGermany/A4

tinue their ride toward the Phil's Trail complex must

right to the name Biketoberfest — on Oct. 10.

either ride along Road 41,

Mayer said a trail paralleling Road 41 has been a priority for COTA for several years. Once REI committed to chipping in and the Forest Service agreed to building the trail, COTA members spent

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which is narrow with no shoulders and limited visi-

bility, or cross the road and ride along the heavily used Deschutes River Trail. Orcutt said construction

of the trail fell just short of being completed Monday. Volunteer crews with COTA will finish up the work, she said, and intend

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"He had a really strong and expansive vision for become, and he was really dedicated to making that happen." Boyle didn't take many vacations, but he would go fishing on the weekends and used to say he did his best thinking on

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River. When he made up his mind on something,

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about a month scouting the

area, looking for a route that would provide an interesting ride while minimizing erosion and future maintenance.

COCC board member.

what hewanted COCC to

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Judy Roberts, his executive secretary until he

retired. "I don't think I ever

heard him say he was wrong," Roberts said.

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Threat of Chinesespying drives Obamafrom hotel By Ana Swenson

ria, the luxury hotel on Park

The Washington Post

Avenue, during his annual trip

The threat of Chinese es-

pionage is changing how the U.S. acts — in ways big and small. For the first time in decades,

the American president isn' t staying at the Waldorf Asto-

to New York for a meeting of the United Nations.

his entourage typically rent out at least three floors of the Waldorf Towers. The admin-

Every September, leaders

istration reportedly favor the Waldorf for its long tradition

and bureaucrats from around

— the iconic hotel is home to

the world descend on New York for the U.N. General Assembly. The president and

the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and has hosted every U.S. president since Herbert

Hoover — as well as its internalelevatorsand secure design, which allows Secret Service agents to be posted throughout the hotel. But this year, the American

delegation is staying a block over, at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, which is South

Korean-owned. The Waldorf Astoria, which has been the site of notable

moments in American history, including the invention of eggs Benedict and the death of Hoover, passed into Chinese ownership last year. SeeSpies /A4


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