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Hundreds of Central Oregonians who can’t pay their bills have their water shut off. For people like Lynette Nicks, who’s recovering from cancer, that’s especially dangerous.

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Josh Kardon, Sen. Ron Wyden’s longtime chief of staff who has been credited by colleagues with leading the Oregon Democrat’s efforts on natural resources and county timber payments, is moving full time into private consulting.

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WASHINGTON — As chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, Josh Kardon has been called the most influential unelected official in Oregon. Some dubbed him Oregon’s “third senator” — as both a compliment and a criticism.

And last week, Kardon left Wyden’s office to join the private sector, where he’ll serve as a consultant to Wyden’s re-election campaign, be an adviser to a Portland consulting firm and have a chance to make dramatically more money than he did as a Senate staffer.

Kardon declined to answer most questions about his work with Wyden or his career change.

Kardon said he hasn’t decided whether he’ll return to Wyden’s office when the campaign is over.

“This is the single best way for me to help the best senator I’ve ever known win re-election,” Kardon said. “It will also allow me to get involved in some other projects and explore other ways I can make a difference.”

Political analysts, lobbyists and former staffers who worked with Kardon said he’s been an uncommonly effective chief of staff, who forged a tight bond with his boss over the past 18 years. He also earned a reputation for playing hardball, and earned the most money of any staffer for Oregon members of Congress for working on political campaigns over the past four years.

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Lynette Nicks, who has struggled with breast cancer for two years, has not been able to pay her bills lately. On Feb. 15, if she doesn’t pay her water bill, the city of Redmond plans to cut off her service. Nicks and her son Chad, 12, may move temporarily to her parents’ home near Prineville. “It’s easy to see how people get behind and give up,” she says.

Fixing the ‘unsustainable’ gas tax Do we move to a mileage tax instead? Questions of urgency, fairness and privacy abound

By Ashley Halsey III The Washington Post

Within a few years, a driver who pulls up to the gas pump may pay two bills with a single swipe of the credit card: one for the gas and the other for each mile driven since the last fill-up.

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many transportation experts see as an inevitable revolution in the way Americans pay for their highways.

The flow of the gas tax pipeline that has poured cash into one of the world’s premier highway systems has slowed as some people drive less and oth-

ers choose more fuel-efficient vehicles. Maintaining that aging network and tackling the rushhour congestion afflicting most cities will require billions of dollars. As gas tax revenues dwindle, federal and state lawmakers have an option created by innovative new technology: Charge

the nation’s 201 million drivers for every mile they travel.

That prospect was raised last year by a congressional commission, a Brookings Institution report and a highly regarded nonpartisan transportation research group.

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Proposed plastic ban gains attention of tribes

By Nick Budnick The Bulletin

SALEM — Tribal leaders in Warm Springs are jumping into what currently is one of the most contentious battles in Salem: whether to ban the chemical BPA from plastic used for sippy cups, What baby food jars and the lining of is BPA? infant formula Bisphenol A is a chemical containers.

Sen. Jackie commonly used Dingfelder, a in the production Portland Demo- of plastics for crat, is pushing many food to make Oregon and beverage one of a few containers. states, including Questions about Connecticut and its safety, though Minnesota, to disputed, have follow Canada caught the in banning the attention of the chemical, also FDA and state known as bi- lawmakers. A bill sphenol A. The in the Legislature move is based seeks to make on an array of Oregon one of scientific studies the few states that plastic and that bans BPA. chemical industry scientists dispute, but which has sparked concern among Food and Drug Administration officials.

The Warm Springs leadership has long championed clean water legislation, so its stance on BPA, which is found in waterways and fish, is not a surprise. But it’s likely to become even more active on these issues thanks to the influence of the reservation’s new health and human services manager, Caroline Cruz.

Cruz, 59, had worked for the reservation for a decade starting in 1977, and rejoined the reservation government last year to head its community health programs.

She’s spent 30 years in the field of prevention, mainly focused on drug and alcohol abuse, and most recently served as tribal liaison for the state Department of Human Services.

In May, a position came open, and “I got recruited to come back home,” she said. Now, she oversees 120 employees in the tribe’s community health programs.

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REDMOND — ynette Nicks has not worked for the past two years, instead fighting the breast cancer that has consumed much of her energy and resources.

She’s used up $26,000 in savings to pay her bills.

Now, the money is gone, and one bill she can’t pay is one of the most critical: her water bill.

The city will cut her water service on Feb. 15 if she can’t come up with the $140 that is overdue.

She says she doesn’t have the money and is resigned to losing water.

Nicks, 39, will be one of about 100 Redmond residents and several hundred Central Oregonians who lose their water service this month. Local water utilities have been shutting off dozens of water accounts each month as people struggle to pay bills.

City officials say there is no law requiring people to have water, so some, like Nicks, appear to be staying in homes without running water, despite the obvious hygiene issues.

“I’m stubborn,” Nicks said.

“I will stay here.”

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Goldman Sachs’ demands for billions of dollars from the American International Group bled the insurer of cash, which the government later provided.

Billions of dollars were at stake when 21 executives of Goldman Sachs and the American International Group convened a conference call on Jan. 28, 2008, to try to resolve a rancorous dispute that had been escalating for months.

AIG had long insured complex mortgage securities owned by Goldman and other firms against

possible defaults. With the housing crisis deepening, AIG, once the world’s biggest insurer, had already paid Goldman $2 billion to cover losses the bank said it might suffer.

AIG executives wanted some of its money back, insisting that Goldman — like a homeowner overestimating the damages in a storm to get a bigger insurance payment — had inflated the potential losses. Goldman countered

that it was owed even more, while also resisting consulting with third parties to help estimate a value for the securities.

After more than an hour of debate, the two sides on the call signed off with nothing settled, according to internal AIG documents and a tape recording reviewed by The New York Times.

Behind-the-scenes disputes over huge sums are common in banking, but the standoff between AIG

and Goldman would become one of the most momentous in Wall Street history. Well before the federal government bailed out AIG in September 2008, Goldman’s demands for billions of dollars from AIG helped put the insurer in a precarious financial position by bleeding it of muchneeded cash.

That ultimately provoked the government to step in.

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Spending cuts meet selective support

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ABOVE: Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addressed the inaugural Tea Party convention on Saturday, calling the deficit “immoral” and “generational theft.”

By Carl Hulse New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — While Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said he was all for slowing federal spending, he has no appetite for the substantial cuts in farm programs proposed in President Barack Obama’s new budget.

Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., issued a news release simultaneously lamenting the deficit spending outlined in the new budget and protesting cuts in Pentagon projects important to his state.

And Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., a fiscal conservative and a senior Republican on the Budget Committee, vowed to resist reductions in space program spending that would flow back home.

The positions of these Republicans — and similar stances by dozens of other lawmakers of both parties — are a telling illustration of why it is so hard to control federal spending. Every federal program has a constituency, and even lawmakers who profess to be alarmed by rising deficits will go to the mat to preserve money that provides jobs and benefits to their constituents.

“I am not a hypocrite,” Sessions said in reconciling his fiscally conservative credentials with his outrage over the administration’s proposal to essentially end the human space flight program and allow private enterprise to take on some of the load — an approach Republicans typically favor. Sessions said money taken from NASA would not be saved but would instead be directed to other administration priorities he did not support.

Having it both ways Others said the annual tableau in which members of Congress criticize the spread of red ink, even as they reassure voters back home of protection for popular subsidies and Pentagon projects, exposed the high degree of cynicism and lack of conviction that colors the fight over congressional spending.

“It shows that in Washington, you can be firm on your opinions; it is your principles you can be flexible on,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.

The GOP juggling act on spending comes after a legislative proposal for an independent commission to study ways to cut the deficit stalled in the Senate, partly because some Republicans who had originally backed the idea balked.

“There are not enough statesmen who will stand up and say, ‘Cut it even when it is in my district,’” said Rep. Jeff Flake, RAriz., who has crusaded against spending by both parties on pet projects known as earmarks.

It is not only Republicans who are trying to have it both ways.

Conservative and moderate Democrats who have pushed against deficit spending also quickly protested the cuts in NASA, military and farm spending. Among them was Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., who leads the Agriculture Committee.

“While I, too, believe we must reduce the federal deficit, we must all share in this responsibility.”

But Republicans have made attacks on Democratic spending, the federal deficit and the overall national debt a central element of their midterm election campaigns, leading to heightened scrutiny of their budget comments. Democrats have obliged, compiling what they see as hypocritical stances by top Republicans, and many others have sifted through the Republican record as well.

Republicans say they welcome efforts to reduce spending, but that the Obama proposals are misguided and put crucial programs on the chopping block in an effort to find support for less important initiatives favored by the White House, like climate change.

Flake said lawmakers who railed against the deficit and backed local spending projects personified the traditional Washington struggle between national and parochial interests.

“That’s Congress,” he said.

“You just have to hope that people move beyond it.”

LEFT: About 600 people gathered Saturday at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., to get serious about electing conservatives. Affectations from the Revolutionary War era were not out of place at the event.

Tea Party looks to move from the fringe A N A LY S I S

By Kate Zernike New York Times News Service

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — There were the handful of Revolutionary War re-enactors with their powdered wigs and tri-corner hats.

And the guy with the T-shirt proclaiming himself a proud member of the “Tennessee MOB” — a poke at politicians who dismissed Tea Partiers as an “angry mob.” And one speaker did insist that Jesus’ birth was better documented than President Barack Obama’s.

But at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention here this weekend, gone were the placards protesters had carried last year with Obama’s face wearing a Hitler mustache, or superimposed on the Joker of Batman fame. Gone, really, were any placards, unless you count the poster of Sarah Palin in her signature red jacket that someone had hung from one of the wrought iron balconies of the Opryland Hotel and Convention Center.

Organizers said anyone who had shown up “looking too crazy” would have been tossed out. They had a goal that it turned out pretty much everyone here shared: to turn the Tea Party into a serious political force, rather than the anger-filled fringe group they say they’ve been branded as.

“The movement is maturing,” said Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, the social networking site that sponsored the convention. “The rallies were good for last year, because that’s what we could do last year. This year, we have to change things.

We have got to win.”

The goal is electing a conservative Congress in 2010 and a conservative president in 2012. To that end, organizers announced

the formation of a political action committee they say could steer $10 million to conservative challengers this year.

And the convention tried to channel anger into what Phillips called “Electioneering 101.” “What we want people to do is to leave here connected with other activists, so they can recruit good candidates, get candidates exposed to the voters, and get voters to the polls,” he said. “If we just go out and hold signs and protest, that’s not going to win the election.”

Divisions Despite the convention and its neat PowerPoint presentations, the movement that began a year ago to protest government bailouts and health care legislation showed signs this weekend that it is still undeveloped, diverse and almost defiantly leaderless.

“This movement doesn’t need a leader,” said Anthony Shreeve of the Tennessee Tea Party Coalition, which did not take part this weekend but staged a counter news conference outside. “It’s a ‘We the People’ movement.”

Tea Party Nation said it had invited the chairmen of the Republican and Democratic national committees to speak with delegates in town hall-style sessions. (Tea Partiers argue that Republicans are just as complicit as Democrats in the expansion of big government, so perhaps neither would have felt welcome.)

But organizers said they never heard back from the Democratic National Committee, and while

the Republican chairman, Michael Steele, expressed interest, he later declined, citing “scheduling issues,” which Phillips called “really regrettable.”

“Are they scared of you?” asked a reporter from French radio, one of several foreign journalists covering the convention.

“They should be,” Phillips said.

Among those represented here were some old conservative players, like Young Americans for Freedom and Judicial Watch.

But the convention was bleeding sponsors and participants right up to its opening day because of accusations from other Tea Party groups that Tea Party Nation, which is unapologetically for-profit, was profiteering.

Tea Party Patriots, another social networking site with ties to FreedomWorks, the Washington advocacy powerhouse led by former Republican House leader Dick Armey, suggested to its members that the ticket price was too high: $549, or $349 to see only Palin, the keynote speaker Saturday night.

Phillips refused to say how much Palin was being paid, saying she had made them sign a confidentiality agreement. Reports were that her fee was $100,000.

In the end, he said, the convention would just break even: “I keep telling people my profit’s going to be in the high two figures.”

Like no other party convention Apart from a guy wearing the shirt fashioned from an American flag, this did not have the confetti and balloon-drop feel of the typical party convention.

There were no fiery speeches.

The 600 people who had come from as far as Hawaii sat in neat rows in banquet rooms, listening to panel discussions about how to grow the movement and raising their hands politely to speak.

“This is a real working convention; there was nothing around (like) tea bags and signs,” said Mark Skoda, the leader of the Tea Party in Memphis.

Many of the sessions emphasized the importance of new technologies. If Tea Party advocates offer little admiration for Obama, they do often cite his campaign as a model for how it built a fortune from small donations and used social networking.

But the crowd here was largely middle-aged and upward, and technology may not come as easily as it did to the youths, by comparison, who powered Obama’s campaign. A session on “collaboration in the cloud-applied technology” got hung up on basics like how to do an effective Google search, buy a Web domain or send mass e-mail.

Still, what delegates may lack in political savvy, they make up for in energy.

At a panel discussion titled “Defeating Liberalism via the Primary Process,” the room erupted in a standing ovation when Barbee Kinnison, a delegate from Nevada, stood up and declared her intention to unite Tea Party groups behind a candidate to defeat Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader.

As the session ended a few moments later, people charged toward her to exchange cell phone numbers and pledges of support.

“You need to come to California and help us defeat Nancy Pelosi,” one woman said.

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Toyota’s pattern of slow response to safety issues New York Times News Service

Toyota’s recalls and disclosures in recent months are part of a lengthy pattern in which the automaker has often reacted slowly to safety concerns, in some instances making design changes without telling customers about problems with vehicles already on the road, an examination of its record shows.

Toyota received complaints from customers in Europe about sticking accelerator pedals as early as December 2008 and started installing redesigned pedals on new vehicles there last August.

Then, last month, similar concerns in the United States led to a pedal recall of 2.3 million vehicles. The European cars have now been recalled, too.

In a congressional committee meeting on Jan. 27, Toyota officials said they first learned of this problem through reports of sticking pedals in vehicles in England and Ireland in the spring of 2009.

But Toyota later acknowledged it had received reports there as early as December 2008.

Three years ago, it recalled 2007 and 2008 Toyota Camrys and Lexus ES 350s because the accelerator could stick under floor mats, a precursor to a much bigger recall last fall.

And in early 1996, Toyota engineers discovered that a crucial steering mechanism could fracture on the Hilux Surf, which was sold as the 4Runner in the United States. Toyota started installing a stronger version on new models.

Yet it took Toyota eight more years to start recalling Hilux Surfs and 4Runners built before the 1996 design change, after an accident involving an out-of-control Hilux Surf prompted a police investigation. Toyota received a rebuke from the Japanese government and was ordered to overhaul its recall system.

Many automakers address problems discreetly when feasible, hoping to avoid an uncomfortable spotlight.

But Toyota, a company that built its reputation with meticulous attention to quality, is now facing a credibility crisis as littleknown problems are surfacing with many of its models.

Most recently, Toyota acknowledged it had identified a flaw in

Toyota tells dealers of Prius brakes fix Toyota has told dealers it’s preparing a plan to repair the brakes on thousands of hybrid Prius cars in the U.S. In a message sent Friday night to dealers, a Toyota group vice president, Bob Carter, said the company is working on a plan and will disclose more details early this week. More than 100 drivers of 2010 Prius cars have complained their brakes seemed to fail momentarily when they were driving on bumpy roads.

The U.S. government says the problem is suspected in four crashes and two minor injuries.

Toyota blames a software glitch and says it has already fixed vehicles in production. But it’s still deciding how to handle repairs on 270,000 Priuses sold in the U.S. and Japan starting last year.

The problem isn’t related to separate recalls involving millions of Toyotas with defective gas pedals and floor mats that could cause unintended acceleration.

— The Associated Press the anti-lock braking systems of its Prius hybrids and altered the system for models built since January.

Facing new investigations, Toyota said it was considering a recall.

Toyota officials, when asked about their handling of previous safety issues, responded largely with comments about how they would handle the matter now and in the future.

“The company is prepared to cooperate fully and sincerely, and we are doing our utmost to deal with the matter in a way that brings safety and peace of mind to our customers,” the company’s chief executive, Akio Toyoda, said Friday at a news conference.

“We acknowledge that we could have communicated better as a company,” said James Wiseman, a spokesman for Toyota’s U.S. division. “However, we have taken significant steps to address these issues.”

N B Missionary detained in N. Korea back in U.S. LOS ANGELES — An American missionary who strode illegally into North Korea on Christmas Day and was detained by the communist regime for 43 days was welcomed back to the U.S. Saturday evening in an emotional reunion with family at Los Angeles International Airport.

Robert Park arrived on a commercial flight from Beijing. Earlier Saturday, the 28-year-old Korean-American from Tucson, Ariz., flew to the Chinese capital from Pyongyang.

3 dead after 2 planes collide in Colorado BOULDER, Colo. — A small plane clipped the towline of another plane pulling a glider Saturday, sparking a fiery midair crash in Colorado and killing three people, authorities said.

The glider disconnected from its tow plane just before the collision that sent both planes plummeting to the ground, sheriff’s spokesman Rick Brough said. The glider landed safely — with no injuries to any of the three people on board — after the two planes made impact, authorities said.

“We understand the glider went through a fireball after the impact,” said NTSB field investigator Jennifer Rodi. The crash occurred about 1:30 p.m. near the Boulder Municipal Airport.

New Orleans elects first white mayor since 1978 Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu was elected in a landslide Saturday to be this city’s first new mayor since Hurricane Katrina — and the first white mayor in majority-black New Orleans since 1978, when his father, Maurice Edwin Landrieu, left office.

— From wire reports

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D.C. shuts down, buried in record snowfall Bulletin wire reports A blizzard that had forecasters reaching for superlatives engulfed the nation’s capital and the mid-Atlantic states on Saturday with record snowfalls that paralyzed transportation, commerce and all but emergency services.

Washington took on a surreal, almost magical feel as it was buried under nearly 2 feet of snow Saturday in one of the worst blizzards in the city’s history.

The nearly 18 inches recorded at Reagan National Airport was the fourth-highest storm total for the city. At nearby Dulles International Airport, the record was shattered with 32 inches.

“Right now, it’s like the Epcot

Related • Massive California storm brings mudslides, flooding, Page B5 Center version of Washington,” said Mary Lord, 56, a D.C. resident for some 30 years who had skied around the city.

“Snowmageddon,” President Barack Obama called it. And even the president’s motorcade — which featured SUVs instead of limousines — fell victim as a tree limb snapped and crashed onto a motorcade vehicle carrying press. No one was injured.

The storm did knock out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and caused countless ac-

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cidents that left at least two people dead.

From Pennsylvania to New Jersey, south to Virginia, the region was under at least 2 feet of snow.

Parts of northern Maryland had 3 feet. People tried to dig out the best they could, though the constant snow made it difficult. As Christine Benkoski in Ellicott City, Md., tried to clear her driveway, she said she uncovered how the storm had gone from snow, to ice, then back to snow.

“I feel like an archaeologist,” said Benkoski. “I’ve been out here for an hour, and my only goal is to get to the street.”

The snow comes less than two months after a Dec. 19 storm dumped more than 16 inches on

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As part of it, Goldman: • keeps $8.4 billion in AIG payments. • is paid $5.6 billion by the Fed, representing the full value for the deals. • $5.5 billion in contracts with Goldman are left on AIG’s books.

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Continued from A1 With taxpayer assistance to AIG currently totaling $180 billion, regulatory and congressional scrutiny of Goldman’s role in the insurer’s downfall is increasing. The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the payment demands that a number of firms — most prominently Goldman — made during 2007 and 2008 as the mortgage market imploded.

The SEC wants to know if any of the demands improperly stirred distress in the mortgage market, according to people briefed on the matter who requested anonymity because the inquiry was intended to be confidential.

In just the year before the AIG bailout, Goldman collected more than $7 billion from AIG. And Goldman received billions more after the rescue. Though other banks also benefited, Goldman received more taxpayer money, $12.9 billion, than any other firm.

In addition, according to two people with knowledge of the positions, a portion of the $11 billion in taxpayer money that went to SociĂŠtĂŠ GĂŠnĂŠrale, a French bank that traded with AIG, was subsequently transferred to Goldman under a deal it had struck with the other bank.

Goldman stood to gain from the housing market’s implosion because in late 2006, the firm had begun to make huge trades that would pay off if the mortgage market soured. The further mortgage securities prices fell, the greater were Goldman’s profits.

During its arguments with AIG, Goldman invariably claimed the securities in dispute were worth less than AIG estimated — and in many cases, less than the prices at which other dealers valued the securities.

‘Tip of the iceberg of this whole crisis’ The pricing dispute, and Goldman’s bets that the housing market would decline, has left some questioning whether Goldman had other reasons for lowballing the value of the securities that AIG had insured, said Bill Brown, a law professor at Duke University who is also a former employee of both Goldman and AIG. The dispute between the two companies, he said, “was the tip of the iceberg of this whole crisis.� “It’s not just who was right and who was wrong,� Brown said. “I also want to know their motivations. There could have been an incentive for Goldman to say, ‘AIG, you owe me more money.’�

Goldman is proud of its reputation for aggressively protecting itself and its shareholders from losses as it did in the dispute with AIG. In March 2009, David Viniar, Goldman’s chief financial officer, discussed his firm’s dispute with AIG in a conference call with reporters. “We believed that the value of these positions was lower than they believed,� he said.

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For decades, AIG and Goldman had a deep and mutually beneficial relationship and, at one point in the 1990s, even considered merging. At around the same time, in 1998, AIG entered a lucrative new business: insuring the least risky portions of corporate loans or other assets that were bundled into securities.

AIG’s financial products unit, led by Joseph Cassano, was behind the expansion. To reduce its own risks in the transactions, the company structured deals so that it would not have to make early payments to clients when securities began to sour. That changed

— Bill Brown, a law professor at Duke University who is also a former employee of both Goldman and AIG

around 2003, however, when AIG began insuring portions of subprime mortgage deals. A lawyer for Cassano said his client would not comment for this article. AIG also declined to comment.

Alan Frost, a managing director in Cassano’s unit, negotiated scores of mortgage deals around Wall Street that included a complicated sequence of events for when an insurance payment on a distressed asset came due. The terms, described by several AIG trading partners, stated that AIG would post payments under two or three circumstances: if mortgage bonds were downgraded, if they were deemed to have lost value, or if AIG’s own credit rating was downgraded. If all of those things happened, AIG would have to make even larger payments.

Frost said he could not remember the details of AIG’s deals with Goldman.

Traders loved Frost’s deals because they would pay out quickly if anything went wrong. Frost cut many of his deals with two Goldman traders, Jonathan Egol and Ram Sundaram, who had negative or “bearish� views of the housing market. They had made AIG a central part of some of their trading strategies.

Egol structured a group of deals — known as Abacus — so that Goldman could benefit from a housing collapse. Many of them were actually packages of AIG insurance written against mortgage bonds, indicating that Egol and Goldman believed that AIG would have to make large payments if the housing market ran aground.

About $5.5 billion of Egol’s deals still sat on AIG’s books when the insurer was bailed out. “Al probably did not know it, but he was working with the bears of Goldman,� a former Goldman salesman, who requested anonymity so he would not jeopar-

dize his business relationships, said of Frost. “He was signing AIG up to insure trades made by people with really very negative views� of the housing market.

Sundaram’s trades represented another large part of Goldman’s business with AIG. According to five former Goldman employees, Sundaram used financing from other banks like SociÊtÊ GÊnÊrale and Calyon to purchase less risky mortgage securities from competitors like Merrill Lynch and then insure the assets with AIG — helping fatten the mortgage pipeline that would prove so harmful to Wall Street, investors and taxpayers. In October 2008, just after AIG collapsed, Goldman made Sundaram a partner.

Through SociĂŠtĂŠ GĂŠnĂŠrale, Goldman was also able to buy more insurance on mortgage securities from AIG, according to a former AIG executive with direct knowledge of the deals. A spokesman for SociĂŠtĂŠ GĂŠnĂŠrale declined to comment.

It is unclear how much Goldman bought through the French bank, but AIG documents show that Goldman was involved in pricing half of SociÊtÊ GÊnÊrale’s $18.6 billion in trades with AIG and that the insurer’s executives believed that Goldman pressed SociÊtÊ GÊnÊrale to also demand payments.

Goldman’s tough terms In addition to insuring Sundaram’s and Egol’s trades with AIG, Goldman also negotiated aggressively with AIG — often requiring the insurer to make payments when the value of mortgage bonds fell by just 4 percent. Most other banks dealing with AIG did not receive payments until losses exceeded 8 percent, the insurer’s records show.

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Lucas van Praag, a Goldman spokesman, reiterated that position. “We requested the collateral we were entitled to under the terms of our agreements,� he said in a written statement, “and the idea that AIG collapsed because of our marks is ridiculous.�

Still, documents show there were unusual aspects to Goldman’s payments. It resisted, for example, letting third parties value the securities as its contracts with AIG required. And Goldman based some payment demands on lower-rated bonds that AIG’s insurance did not even cover.

A November 2008 analysis by BlackRock, a leading asset management firm, noted that Goldman’s valuations of the securities that AIG insured were “consistently lower than third-party prices.�

To be sure, many now agree that AIG was reckless during the mortgage mania. The firm, once the world’s largest insurer, had written far more insurance than it could have possibly paid if a national mortgage debacle occurred — as, in fact, it did.

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the relationship between Goldman and AIG was that without the insurer to provide credit insurance, the investment bank could not have generated some of its enormous profits betting against the mortgage market. And when that market went south, AIG became its biggest casualty — and Goldman became one of its biggest beneficiaries.

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C OV ER S T OR I ES Continued from previous page Several former Goldman partners said it was not surprising that Goldman sought such tough terms, given the firm’s long-standing focus on risk management.

By July 2007, when Goldman demanded its first payment from AIG — $1.8 billion — the investment bank had already taken trading positions that would pay out if the mortgage market weakened, according to seven former Goldman employees.

Still, Goldman’s initial call surprised AIG officials, according to three AIG employees with direct knowledge of the situation. The insurer put up $450 million on Aug. 10, 2007, to appease Goldman, but AIG remained resistant in the following months and, according to internal messages, was convinced that Goldman was also pushing other trading partners to ask AIG for payments.

On Nov. 1, 2007, for example, an e-mail message from Cassano, the head of AIG Financial Products, to Elias Habayeb, an AIG accounting executive, said that a payment demand from Société Générale had been “spurred by GS calling them.”

Habayeb, who testified before Congress last month that the payment demands were a major contributor to AIG’s downfall, declined to be interviewed and referred questions to AIG. The insurer also declined to comment for this article. Van Praag, the Goldman spokesman, said Goldman did not push other firms to demand payments from AIG. Later that month, Cassano noted in another e-mail message that Goldman’s demands for payment were becoming problematic. “The overhang of the margin call from the perceived righteous Goldman Sachs has impacted everyone’s judgment,” he wrote to five employees in his division.

By the end of November 2007, Goldman was holding $2 billion in cash from AIG when the insurer notified Goldman that it was disputing the firm’s calculations and seeking a return of $1.56 billion. Goldman refused, the documents show.

In many of these deals, Goldman was trading for other parties and taking a fee. As the mortgage market declined, Goldman paid some of these parties while waiting for AIG to meet its demands, the Goldman spokesman said. But one reason those parties were owed money on the deals was Goldman had marked down the securities.

Adding to the pressure on AIG, Viniar, Goldman’s chief financial officer, advised the insurer in the fall of 2007 that because the two companies shared the same auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AIG should accept Goldman’s valuations, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. Goldman declined to comment on this exchange.

Pricewaterhouse had supported AIG’s approach to valuing the securities throughout 2007, documents show. But at the end of 2007, the auditor began demanding that AIG provide greater disclosure on the risks in the credit insurance it had written. Pricewaterhouse was concerned about the dispute.

The insurer disclosed in yearend regulatory filings that its auditor had found a “material weakness” in financial reporting related to valuations of the insurance, a troubling sign for investors.

A spokesman for Pricewaterhouse said the company would not comment on client matters.

Insiders at AIG bridled at Goldman’s insistence that they accept the investment bank’s valuations.

“Would we call bond issuers and ask them what the valuation of their bonds was and take that?” asked Robert Lewis, AIG’s chief risk officer, in a January 2008 message. “What am I missing here?”

When AIG asked Goldman to submit the dispute to a panel of independent firms, Goldman resisted, internal e-mail messages show. In a March 7, 2008, phone call, Cassano discussed surveying other dealers to gauge prices with Michael Sherwood, Goldman’s vice chairman. At that time, Goldman calculated that AIG owed it $4.6 billion, on top of the $2 billion already paid. AIG contended it only owed an additional $1.2 billion.

Sherwood said he did not want to ask other firms to value the securities, because “it would be ‘embarrassing’ if we brought the market into our disagreement,” according to an e-mail from Cassano that described the call.

The Goldman spokesman disputed this account, saying instead that Goldman was willing to consult third parties but could not agree with AIG on the methodology.

AIG’s troubles By the spring of 2008, AIG’s dispute with Goldman was just one of its many woes. Cassano was pushed out in March, and the company’s defenses against the growing demand for payments faltered. By the end of August 2008, AIG had posted $19.7 billion in cash to its trading partners, including Goldman, according to financial filings.

Over that summer, AIG had tried, unsuccessfully, to cancel its insurance contracts with the trading partners. But Goldman, according to interviews with former AIG executives, would allow that only if it also got to keep the $7 billion it had already received from AIG. Goldman wanted to keep the initial insurance payouts and the securities to profit from any future rebound.

In addition to offering to cancel its own contracts, Goldman offered to buy all of the insurance AIG had written for several other banks at severely distressed prices, according to three people briefed on the discussions.

Negotiating with Goldman to void the AIG insurance was especially difficult, Federal Reserve Board documents show, because the firm did not own the underlying bonds. As a result, Goldman had little incentive to compromise.

On Aug. 18, 2008, Goldman’s equity research department published an in-depth report on AIG. The analysts advised the firm’s clients to avoid the stock because of a “downward spiral which is likely to ensue as more actual cash losses emanate” from the insurer’s financial products unit.

On the matter of whether AIG could unwind its troublesome insurance on mortgage securities at a discount, the Goldman report noted that if a trading partner “is not in a position of weakness, why would it accept anything less than the full amount of protection for which it had paid?”

AIG shares fell 6 percent the day the report was published.

Three weeks later, the U.S. government agreed to pour billions of dollars in taxpayer money into the insurer to keep it from collapsing.

The government would soon settle the yearlong dispute between Goldman and AIG, with Goldman receiving full value for its bets. The federal bailout locked in the paper losses of those deals for AIG. The prices on many of those securities have since rebounded.

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Western officials expressed deep skepticism toward Tehran’s contention that a deal was close for having uranium enriched abroad for Iran’s controversial nuclear program.

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, said that the Iranians presented no new proposal or counterproposal during a meeting on the sidelines of a security conference here Saturday.

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the information that I have, I don’t have the sense we are close to an agreement,” he said at the conclusion of talks with Turkish leaders in Ankara.

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BPA Continued from A1 Of all the disputes over environmental regulation, BPA might seem like an odd issue for the reservation to take a position on. But it is an estrogen-like substance that, while useful in hardening plastic, has also been linked to premature sexual maturation in girls by some scientists.

Cruz is receptive to concerns over the chemical because of her background. From age 8 until she was 19, Cruz, along with many of her 11 brothers and sisters, was a farmworker in California’s Salinas Valley.

Today, she carries Benadryl to combat the symptoms she feels around certain chemicals.

“I can’t wear makeup. I can’t go into the store without being all broken out because of all the chemicals that are in the air,” she said, adding that such symptoms are common to members of her family who worked in the fields and were sprayed by pesticides.

“I see this (BPA) as another form of pesticide,” she said. “I don’t believe the research that I’ve read so far that it’s not harmful.”

It was Cruz who sounded the alarm when she learned of the chemical’s potential effects. She confirmed with reservation doctors her impression that the reservation has seen an increase in early menstruation and other physical changes in girls.

“We do know that our girls here, they are going into puberty younger,” she said, adding that instead of 12 or 13, they’re seeing cases as young as 8 or 9. “This has been going on for probably the last decade or more.”

Warm Springs has lent its support to Dingfelder’s legislation, and Louie Pitt Jr., who heads government affairs for the tribe, said it will probably send someone to testify at the next hearing on BPA. He said the tribe’s stance is focused on human health as well as on scientific studies

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“I don’t believe the research that I’ve read so far that it’s not harmful,” Caroline Cruz, health and human services manager for the Warm Springs tribes, says about the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) commonly used in the production of plastic containers meant for food and drink. that have linked BPA to reproductive issues in fish — a major food source for the tribes. In 2006, an Oregon State University study found significant problems with white sturgeon in the Columbia River and linked it to a “cocktail” of various chemicals found in the river.

Grant Feist, a biologist who co-authored the study, said BPA could be part of the problem in fish, though he stressed the link is not proven.

Pitt, for his part, said, “There’s a chance that any chemical that gets into fish will do us harm, because we ingest more.”

Opponents of the BPA crackdown, however, say Dingfelder, Cruz and tribal leaders are going too far in trying to ban a useful chemical. Various scientists and business leaders testified at a hearing Thursday that the ban was based on questionable science and would damage the region’s economy.

After the hearing, Craig Smith, vice president of the Portlandbased Northwest Food Proces-

sors Association, said the bill is worded so broadly that “it would probably put an end to the canning business in Oregon.”

“It’s a big deal,” he said.

Smith said the language is vague enough that it could affect all canned fruits and vegetables, not just containers aimed at kids, as Dingfelder contends.

He said Oregon should wait for the results of a recent FDA decision to launch a new review of the chemical, based on new concerns over the chemical’s safety.

“Let’s let the science guys take their best shot at it, and if they come back and say it isn’t safe, we won’t use it,” Smith said. “But the Senate environment committee isn’t the best place to decide that.”

Todd Wynn, who tracks the issue for the libertarian Cascade

Policy Institute, agreed, saying that despite the emotional arguments linking BPA to everything from asthma to attention-deficit problems, “the risks are extremely negligible, and the benefits (of using the chemical) are extremely significant.”

Cruz said she is only an adviser to the tribal leadership, but if it’s up to her, the tribe will become more active on issues around toxics and the environment.

Pitt said the tribe is glad to have her. “We’re very excited. She’s doing an excellent job and is a very professional, outspoken person,” he said. “She’s always had a caring heart for people, and we’re glad to have her home.”

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Kardon’s influence Lobbyist Kai Anderson, a La Grande native who served as deputy chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, DNev., said there’s no doubt about Kardon’s clout.

“I think he is probably the most effective and most influential Democrat in Oregon that’s not elected,” Anderson said.

Kardon, an environmental lawyer by training, joined Wyden while he was still in the House of Representatives. He’s stayed with Wyden for 18 years — a geologic era by Senate standards — which allows him to speak with authority on behalf of his boss.

“If he makes a deal on behalf of the Wyden office, it’s a deal,” Anderson said.

Environmentalist and former Oregon Wild Executive Director Andy Kerr agreed.

“We don’t call him the third senator for nothing,” said Kerr, who negotiated with Kardon on several wilderness and forest policy bills.

Kerr, Anderson and others credit Kardon with leading Wyden’s efforts on natural resources issues, including bills to extend the county timber payments program and creating the Steens Wilderness area, and with negotiating the east-side forest policy bill that Wyden introduced this year.

That clout led to occasional verbal sparring with U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, over natural resources bills, including the county timber payments program, which funnels federal money to rural governments and schools, including millions for Central Oregon.

In 2007, DeFazio called Kardon’s complaints about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s timber payments strategy “outrageous” and a “proxy attack” on the speaker, according to The Associated Press. And last year, DeFazio and Kardon traded barbs about their respective forest proposals.

Campaign work As his tenure has grown, so has demand for Kardon’s services.

Since 2006, Kardon has earned more than $72,000 while moonlighting as a campaign consultant for Wyden and Gov. Ted Kulongoski, also a Democrat.

According to his financial disclosure statements filed with the Senate Office of Public Records and made available by Legistorm.com, Kardon earned $24,000 from Kulongoski’s gubernatorial campaign in 2006, $24,000 from Kulongoski in 2007 and $24,000 from Wyden’s senatorial campaign in 2008.

Last year’s financial disclosures aren’t due until spring, but Kardon confirmed that he worked

“I think he is probably the most effective and most influential Democrat in Oregon that’s not elected.”

— Kai Anderson, a La Grande native who has lobbied for the county timber payments program

for Wyden’s campaign last year as well.

At the same time, Kardon earned about $160,000 annually as Wyden’s chief of staff, according to records of Wyden’s Senate office expenses.

The amount of outside work Kardon did is more than most staffers, but the practice is common, said Oregon State University political science professor Bill Lunch.

“The number is bigger than what you’d normally have for someone in that position, but it’s routine for these kinds of folks to flip back and forth between congressional staff and campaign staff,” Lunch said.

Congressional staffers are free to work on political campaigns as long as they do so on personal time, according to Senate Ethics Committee guidelines. Outside earnings, though, are capped each year, and in 2006, that cap was $24,000.

Congressional observers, including Pacific University political science instructor Jim Moore and Michael Malbin, the executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute, said staffers moving between campaign and policy positions is normal. The practice occasionally is harmful, Moore said, when it leads to politics being prized above good government.

“It becomes really problematic when Rahm Emanuel or Karl Rove are basically sitting there with their politics and adviser hat on and their policy hat on” at the same time, Moore said.

Private sector Kardon stands to see his income jump dramatically this year as he enters the world of private campaign consulting, Lunch said.

“The sorts of folks who run these sorts of campaign consulting operations can get substantial bucks,” Lunch said.

In 2008, that was at least $12,000 a month for Paul Johnson, a general consultant to Jeff Merkley’s Senate campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records of spending by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

This year, Kardon is expanding his campaign business to other

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Faulkner that civilization is generally celebrated In a couple begins with distillation: with grape juice, the Jan. of months, The city, whose popula12 vote has prompted a person will tion is about 8,000, would some reflection. be able to never grow without nice Mississippi has a pecu- buy a beer restaurants, and nice liar history when it comes legally in New restaurants would never to temperance. Liquor Albany, Miss., arrive if they could not was banned here long the author’s serve alcohol. after federal Prohibition birthplace, for To the members of was repealed in 1933, the first time New Albany Citizens under an arrangement in more than United for Families, that that pleased everyone: 50 years. reasoning is specious. the Baptists, the bootleg“That’s a bunch of bagers and the state, which, loney,” said Alan Cousar, curiously enough, levied taxes on 63, sitting in the office of his usedillegal alcohol. car lot. Look at the nearby towns That came to an end in 1966. A of Baldwyn and Potts Camp, he few months later, the Legislature said. They have alcohol and are passed a bill allowing counties not exactly flourishing. and municipalities to opt out of For now the debate is stilled unprohibition. More than a third of til 2015, when beer can be voted the state is still dry. on again, or until later this year, In the summer of 1950, when there could be another efFaulkner, who was born in New fort at a vote on liquor and wine.

Albany, lobbied hard for an ordiAnd that is fine with Marjorie nance allowing beer in Oxford, Livingston, an 85-year-old retired which sits in the next county. teacher. “Will Rogers said prohiAccording to Joseph Blotner’s bition and communism were two “Faulkner: A Biography,” Faulkner good ideas that don’t work.”

By Campbell Robertson

New York Times News Service

C OV ER S T ORY clients with a new firm he’s calling Grant Park Strategies. Kardon announced his consulting venture Monday in a Facebook status update.

“Today I am opening Grant Park Strategies, a consulting firm from which I will serve as the General Consultant on the Wyden race and provide strategic counsel (but no lobbying) to a variety of non-profit and for-profit clients,” Kardon wrote.

Kardon declined to name those clients. But on Thursday, Portland-based Tonkon Torp Policy Group LLC announced that Kardon would join the company as a senior adviser, in addition to his private consulting company.

Wyden’s campaign manager for 2010 will be Jake Weigler, currently a spokesman with the state Education Department. Weigler ran Steve Novick’s outsider campaign for U.S. Senate, which ended with a loss in the Democratic primary to current Sen. Jeff Merkley.

Weigler, who starts with Wyden’s campaign full time in mid-February, said he’d be in charge of day-to-day campaign operations, but Kardon would “fill a very active role with the campaign.”

Even if Kardon doesn’t return to Wyden’s office, he’ll remain close to Oregon’s senior senator, Anderson said.

“Once you work for a longtime member of Congress, you always work for a longtime member of Congress,” Anderson said.

Keith Chu can be reached at 202-662-7456 or at kchu@bendbulletin.com.

Haitian children prepare to eat dinner Feb. 4 at the Foyer of Patience orphanage in Port-auPrince. Many such centers are barely habitable.

New York Times News Service

Orphanages of Haiti offer bleak portrait

By Ginger Thompson New York Times News Service

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The floors were concrete, and the windows were broken.

There was no electricity or running water. Lunch looked like watery grits. Beds were fashioned from sheets of cardboard.

And the only toilet did not work.

But the Foyer of Patience here is like hundreds of places that pass as orphanages for thousands of children in the poorest country in the hemisphere. Many centers are barely habitable, much less licensed. They have no means to provide real schooling, or basic medical care, so children spend their days engaged in mindless activities, and many die from treatable illnesses.

And in the wake of an earth-

quake that has left this city in ruins, there is growing concern that an already strained system is being overwhelmed. Haitian and international authorities also fear that some of the less scrupulous orphanages are taking advantage of the chaos to round up children in crisis, and offer them for sale as indentured servants and sex slaves.

But it took the recent arrest of 10 Americans caught trying to leave the country with 33 Haitian children to focus international attention on the nation’s most vulnerable population. While there is no evidence that the Americans, who said they were trying to rescue the children from the earthquake, meant any harm, the case exposed the vast holes in the system that traffickers exploit to trade on

an estimated tens of thousands of Haitian children a year.

“There are many so-called orphanages that have opened in the last couple of years that are not really orphanages at all,” said Frantz Thermilus, the chief of Haiti’s National Judicial Police.

“They are fronts for criminal organizations that take advantage of people who are homeless and hungry. And with the earthquake they see an opportunity to strike in a big way.”

With black markets difficult to quantify, there is no precise count of the numbers of orphanages in this country, the numbers of children living in them, or the numbers of Haitian children who are victims of trafficking, although UNICEF estimates that number in the tens of thousands per year.

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Gas tax Continued from A1 In 2008, then-U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters warned a Senate subcommittee that the “fuel tax is unsustainable in the future.”

“Virtually every economist who has studied transportation says that direct pricing of road use, similar to how people pay for other utilities, holds far more promise ... than do traditional gas taxes,” she said.

But getting the public and its elected officials to accept that idea may be a tough sell.

It is a change that could spark more debate than health care reform, as federal and state policymakers weigh the use of pioneering technology against expected opposition from those who fear an invasion of their privacy and view paying per mile of road use as a form of taxation.

“Technology is not the limiter,” said Ginger Goodin, a senior research engineer at the Texas Transportation Institute who did a major study on pricing. “The decision is in the policy arena.

It’s entirely up to lawmakers and their constituents.”

Taxes and consumption The need for transformation in the way Americans pay for highways is in large measure the result of what they drive and how much.

Pennies per gallon paid at the pump have provided much of the tax revenue that states and the federal government have used to build and repair 8.5 million lane miles of roadway. Since 1993, the federal government has collected a tax of 18.4 cents per gallon, while state rates range from 8 cents in Alaska to 46.6 cents in California.

When the two taxes are combined, Americans pay 46.9 cents on average. Oregon drivers pay about 44 cents per gallon, and Gov. Ted Kulongoski has budgeted a highway tax based on mileage, not gasoline purchases, in the past.

If fuel consumption drops 20 percent by 2017, a goal set by former President George W. Bush, gas tax revenue will drop as well.

But it could fall far faster. President Barack Obama mandated that new cars get even better

Water Continued from A1 She and her 12-year-old son, Chad, can shower and use water from a neighbor’s home, Nicks said, although she’s also considering moving temporarily to her parents’ home near Prineville.

Redmond assumes that, if water service stays off, the resident has abandoned the home, City Manager David Brandt said. Of the 41 accounts that weren’t immediately turned back on last month, Brandt thinks most were foreclosed homes or rentals people had left.

“We assume they’re gone,” Brandt said. “It’s pretty rare that people stay in a house without utilities because it’s extremely difficult.”

The Oregon Public Utilities Commission does not require people to have running water for health or hygiene issues, according to Jeff Freund, a sanitarian in the Deschutes County Community Development Department.

In Redmond, no law requires Nicks to pay to have water returned. Redmond requires residents to have garbage collection, but there’s no similar rule for water service.

In Sisters, where about four people a month have water service turned off, people are free to leave the bills unpaid and the water off, Finance Director Lisa Young said.

“If it’s a homeowner, and it’s their house and they choose to get by without water, that’s their choice.”

Redmond versus Bend Bend will force people to move from a home without running water, although it’s an action officials rarely take.

Bend will allow residents about two weeks of no water before starting proceedings to remove someone, according to Robert Mathias, a building official. The entire process could take more than a month.

“It’s very unusual,” Mathias said. “Typically, people will move from that place.”

Bend recently launched a payment assistance program in which customers can contribute to a fund to help residents in need pay their water bills.

Redmond tries to work with residents on payment arrangements, Brandt said. If a customer has received a notice, the city can delay shut-off for 30 days.

Nicks applied to the city’s reduced payment program, which cuts utility payments by 25 percent. But that won’t take effect un-

mileage — 35.5 miles on average per gallon — by 2016, and he designated $2.4 billion in grants for companies developing car battery and hybrid technology.

“As vehicles become more fuelefficient, revenue from gas taxes falls,” said a Brookings Institution report co-authored by Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office. “A more sustainable solution ... is road-use pricing.”

Hybrids coming on the market soon are expected to get more than 100 miles per gallon, and even-lighter vehicles in the near future may reach more than 200 mpg. And the plug-in Chevy Volt, expected in showrooms later this year, can go 40 miles on batteries alone. Why 40 miles? Because two-thirds of Americans drive less than that distance each day.

For plug-in drivers, daily gasoline consumption will drop to zero.

By one estimate, cited in a Federal Highway Administration report, hybrids may account for 30 percent of the new cars sold within two years, and they are projected to make up 75 percent of the market by 2025.

If half of America switches from a 20 mpg car to a 50 to 100 mpg car in the next 20 years, much of the tax revenue now used to build and rebuild highways will evaporate.

The most immediate solution to the prospect of declining revenue is to increase gas taxes, but legislators need look no further than last year for evidence that people drive less when gas prices rise. They’re also more motivated to trade sport utility vehicles for smaller, fuel-efficient cars.

A study in Texas determined that the state might need an eightfold increase in its fuel tax to keep up, and another estimate projected that the state will face a $146 billion shortfall in 20 years unless it finds a fresh source of revenue.

A congressional commission concluded last year that the Highway Trust Fund, into which federal gas taxes flow, “faces a near-term insolvency crisis, exacerbated by recent reduction in federal motor fuel tax revenues.” After considering more than two dozen revenue options, including higher fuel and tire taxes, a federal vehicle sales tax, a driver’s license surcharge and a general federal sales tax, the commission recommended

til at least the next bill.

Shutting off is the city’s last option if someone won’t or can’t pay the bill, Brandt wrote in an e-mail.

“These are often heart-wrenching conversations, as you can imagine,” he wrote.

Nicks’ predicament Nicks doesn’t want to leave the home she’s lived in for 12 years, but she may not have much of a choice.

The cancer treatments Nicks has undergone have left her immune system severely weakened.

A mild cold, she said, could develop into pneumonia and send her to the hospital.

Nicks doesn’t have to worry about losing her home, she says, because the child support her exhusband pays goes directly to the mortgage. Her three-bedroom home is spotless, though three dogs often run through the house excitedly. A Jeff Gordon fanatic, Nicks’ model of the driver’s car is the brightest decoration in the living room.

Living without running water is a dangerous situation for someone in Nicks’ condition, according to Dr. Robert Boone, her oncologist.

“I think it’s sad,” Boone said. “(Water) is probably the last thing they need to go without.”

When she received the shutoff notice about two weeks ago, Nicks expected to find help from social services or the city. She made dozens of calls, but the social services agencies had money to help pay energy bills, not water.

“I’m stunned. I can’t believe there’s nothing for water assistance,” she said.

Until now, Nicks has relied on the generosity of friends and family. But she says she’s tired and understands why people ditch their homes.

“It’s easy to see how people get behind and give up,” Nicks said.

Nicks hopes to get through the next few months. She’s applied for Social Security disability but was rejected because she was deemed able to work. She’s appealed, and the decision is pending.

Nicks has recovered to the point that doctors will begin reconstructing her breasts Monday.

The process will take several operations, Nicks said. She hopes to be fully recovered by the summer, when she plans on working again.

She isn’t sure how she’ll make it until then, though.

“For water, I’m just stuck,” she said.

Patrick Cliff can be reached at 541-633-2161 or at pcliff@bendbulletin.com.

“Most people don’t even know what they pay ... or even what the gas tax is.”

— Ginger Goodin, who did a major study on pricing for the Texas Transportation Institute

that the nation transition from a fuel-tax-based revenue system to one “measured by miles driven.”

The dramatic need to revitalize the Highway Trust Fund comes as many of the roads built during the suburban boom years four and five decades ago cry out for major overhaul. Five years ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimated that $222 billion a year was needed to maintain the surface transportation system and that annual funding was falling about $45 billion short of that amount.

Technology’s solution If the confluence of plummeting revenue, good roads going bad and traffic gridlock resembles the perfect storm, technology may provide an escape route.

The wizardry to switch the highway funding formula from a pergallon tax to a per-mile tax exists.

A new device linking the technology of a cell phone with a global positioning system unit and a car’s onboard computer could be deployed within a few years, experts say.

The first big hurdle that advocates of the transition will face is selling the American public on the

belief that a per-mile levy is a replacement for the tax on gasoline rather than a new tax burden.

“Most people don’t even know what they pay in gas tax or even what the gas tax is,” said Goodin, the research engineer in Texas.

With powerful interests engaged, including civil libertarians and the oil and automotive industries, this debate may become as fierce as the one over health care.

Privacy may be the single biggest issue. Even as Americans think warily about “full-body scan” technology at airports that reveals what’s beneath their clothing, many may be leery of technology that would create a record of where they drive.

Existing and developing technology gives the policymakers in Congress and state legislatures many design options, among them the pay-at-the-gas-pump model.

The easiest and most private way to tax people for the miles they drive is to check odometers.

The driver knows that the count is accurate, and no one else knows where he has driven.

But there would be no way of knowing which state was owed the tax money. Washington, where commuters routinely cross

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 7, 2010 A7 state lines, is the best example.

Such a move also would raise questions of fairness, because heavier vehicles use more gas and are harder on the road.

“People will ask whether a Hummer and Prius should pay the same rate,” said Martin Wachs, director of the Transportation, Space and Technology Program at the Rand Corp.

And it would defeat something called congestion pricing — the notion that people who opt to commute at peak hours or in special lanes should pay more than those who do not.

Another option would use a car’s onboard computer unit of the type that has been installed since 1996. The unit would keep track of a vehicle’s travels, sending the information to a government billing center either in real time via roadside beacons (they might be cell phone towers) or through regular electronic downloads.

Rates for use of different roadways and traveling at peak or offpeak hours of the day would be computed at the billing center. Use of the data also would ensure that each state received revenue for miles driven within its borders.

Customers would be able to review the accuracy of their charges on detailed bills. This approach would eliminate the expense of checking the odometers for millions of vehicles. And if data were streaming in real time, they could be used for additional features, like matching traffic signals to the flow of traffic or providing

drivers advisories to help them avoid congestion.

A third option — call it the gas pump model — would have the onboard unit handle everything but the bill. It would collect data, calculate the amount owed and then transmit that information. It might send it to a government billing agency or just talk to a computer in the gas pump.

“We found there was a preference for that because that’s more like what we’re doing now,” said Goodin, who has conducted focus groups on highway pricing.

The approach would provide far greater privacy, but it wouldn’t give the details that would reassure the driver that the bill was correct. It also would require that the onboard units be updated regularly as rates change or more roadways begin billing per mile.

Goodin said her focus group data suggest that some Americans might be more ready to trust a private company with their travel history than the government. In this model, that company would receive the data, provide drivers with an accounting to review and forward only the billing information to state and local taxing agencies.

Those private companies might also market additional services to customers.

“People might say, ‘I’ll take one of these units if it will give me realtime traffic info and it can be used to pay for parking, and, then, OK, I’ll pay for mileage at the pump too,’” Goodin said.

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OREGON More aid in the works for jobless, but it won’t last long, see Page B3.

CALIFORNIA Mudslides wreak havoc in Los Angeles foothills, see Page B5.

THE NORTHWEST Calls for better regulation following Columbia spill, see Page B7.

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BPD cites just 3 for cell use so far Washington Week WASHINGTON—Congress sped up its schedule last week, as lawmakers scrambled to get out of town before a historic blizzard descended on Washington, D.C., with up to 26 inches of snow forecast.

While the nation’s capital is less snow-savvy than Central Oregon, that big dump was more than three-quarters of Bend’s average 32 inches of snowfall, according to the Western Regional Climate Center.

In Congress, lawmakers passed a bill to increase the federal debt limit and require “pay-as-you-go” budgeting, where new spending must be offset by tax increases or other spending cuts.

Here’s how Oregon’s delegation voted last week.

Tougher enforcement will start soon, though, law agencies say

By An d res Navarro The Bulletin

Since the state’s new handsfree cell phone law took effect Jan. 1, very few motorists

have been given citations for a violation. The Bend Police Department has issued only three citations, and an official said two of those were given to

people involved in minor traffic accidents.

The law bans the use of cell phones while driving without a hands-free device and outlaws

text messaging as well. Drivers younger than 18 are prohibited from using a cell phone at all while driving.

So far, law enforcement agencies have used this time to educate the public about the violation, but soon they will be

stricter with enforcement.

City police have noticed fewer drivers on the road talking on their cell phones, but some drivers continue to do so, said Steve Esselstyn, Bend police community liaison officer.

See Cell phones / B7

U.S. Senate • CONFIRMING THE HEAD OF THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION Passed 96-0 on Thursday.

Martha Johnson becomes head of the agency that oversees most federal government buildings and vehicles, following a seven-month wait for a vote. Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., blocked the vote over a disagreement with the GSA over whether to build a federal building in Kansas City.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D ....... Yes Sen. Ron Wyden, D ........ Yes

U.S. House • LIMITING FEDERAL DEFICIT GROWTH Passed 233-187 on Thursday.

The bill requires new spending to be offset by tax increases or spending cuts to other government programs.

The “PAYGO” spending rule allows exceptions to prevent a handful of scheduled tax increases. Republican leaders said the rule would lead Democrats to increase taxes.

The same bill passed the Senate last week and now goes to President Barack Obama.

Rep. Greg Walden, R ....... No Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D.. Yes Rep. Peter DeFazio, D ..... Yes Rep. Kurt Schrader, D ..... Yes Rep. David Wu, D ........... Yes

• INCREASING THE FEDERAL DEBT CEILING Passed 217-212 on Thursday, in a procedural vote.

The measure increases the federal debt limit by $1.9 trillion, to more than $14 trillion. The debt limit bill was combined with the pay-as-you-go spending rule, and both went to President Barack Obama for his signature.

The increase in the cap on federal borrowing was designed

by Democratic leaders to ensure that the rank and file won’t have to vote again to run up another increase before the November midterm elections, where they face voters increasingly angry over government spending and debt. Thirty-seven Democrats, mostly from GOP-leaning districts, voted against the measure. So did every Republican.

Photos by Andy Tullis / The Bulletin

A Central Oregon chess tournament Saturday at Redmond High School drew more than 100 elementary and middle school students from about 15 schools to compete in what served as a qualifier for the state tournament in Portland in mid-March.

Check this action There were fans and hard-fought games. There was a trip to state on the line. Competitors may have been using their minds, not their muscles, but as one put it, ‘It’s an intense sport.’

Derek Villalobos, 11, watches the move of Jonny Perez, 14, both of Redmond, as they play a practice game Saturday. Jeremy Rubenstein, a Redmond High English teacher who served as director of the tournament, said he expects the growing number of chess teams in local schools to turn out some strong chess players in the near future.

— Keith Chu, The Bulletin; The Associated Press

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for a somewhat subdued cheering section.

“I’m just glad we can take pictures,” whispered Debbie Taylor, of Bend, straining to catch a glimpse of the board where her son Josh and another boy were playing.

“It’s the quiet sport.”

The tournament for elementary and middle school students drew more than 100 players from about 15 schools. Sponsored by Chess for Success, a Portland nonprofit that calls chess “Athletics for the Mind,” the tournament was a qualifier for the state tournament in Portland in mid-March.

Jeremy Rubenstein, an English teacher who serves as adviser to the Redmond High School chess club and director of the tournament, said there were no true prodigies playing Saturday, and only a handful of kids who could beat a reasonably skilled adult

Another cougar spotted in the Sisters area, this one a large male with a half-eaten deer

By Scott Hammers

Rep. Greg Walden, R ....... No Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D.. Yes Rep. Peter DeFazio, D ..... Yes Rep. Kurt Schrader, D ..... Yes Rep. David Wu, D ............ No

By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

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A large male cougar was spotted north of Sisters on Friday afternoon during an investigation of a partially eaten deer carcass, according to a news release from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office.

The deer carcass was discovered by a resident of Longhorn Drive, who contacted Sheriff’s Office dispatchers.

While investigating the scene with dep-

uties, a representative of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife observed the cougar nearby. The cougar was apparently startled and ran off.

A handful of cougars have been spotted in the area recently. On Jan. 9, a resident of the Tollgate subdivision reported seeing two cougars, both believed to have been juveniles. A deputy followed tracks near the original siting and spotted one cougar south of the subdivision.

Sgt. Mike Biondi said the Sisters area may have a larger cougar population than other communities in the region on account of thicker forests and abundant food, but sightings across Central Oregon remain fairly rare and seem to be isolated incidents.

The Sheriff’s Office will attempt to notify residents in the event of recurring sightings in a given neighborhood, Biondi said.

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player. However, Rubenstein said he expects the growing number of chess teams in local schools will produce some strong chess players in the near future.

At the beginning of the school year, Chess for Success created chess teams at seven Redmond schools, providing equipment and funding to pay for coaches.

“I normally wouldn’t make a plug, but they are an awesome, awesome organization,” Rubenstein said. “It does not cost our district a cent to run these teams.”

Rendi Tyler, 9, a third-grader at Elk Meadow Elementary in Bend, said a friend taught her to play chess about two years ago, and she joined the school’s chess team a short time later.

See Chess / B7

If you see a cougar • A cougar will likely retreat if given the opportunity.

Leave it a way to escape.

• Stay calm, stand your ground and maintain direct eye contact.

• Pick up children, but do so without bending down or turning your back on the cougar.

• Back away slowly, and do not run. Running triggers a chase response in cougars, which could lead to an attack.

• Raise your voice, and speak firmly.

• If the cougar seems aggressive, raise your arms to make yourself look larger, and clap.

• In the very unusual event that a cougar attacks you, fight back with rocks, sticks, tools or any items available.

Source: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

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N R REUNIONS Bend High School Class of 1960 will hold a reunion Sept. 10 at 5:30 p.m. at Sandra Weston’s, 2185 Lakeside Place, Bend; and Sept. 11 at 5:30 p.m. at Joan Pease’s, 2715 N.W. Three Sisters Drive, Bend. For more information, contact Donna Ramsay, 541-382-1309, or email classof1960@hotmail.com. • Crook County High School Class of 1960 will hold a series of reunion events: Sept. 10, 9 p.m., a no-host meal at John Dough’s Pizza, Prineville; Sept. 11, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., a picnic at Ochoco Creek Park, self-scheduled golf at Meadow Lakes Golf Course or visit to The Pine Theater; Sept. 11, 6:30 p.m. buffet dinner at Meadow Lakes Restaurant; and Sept. 12, 9 a.m., brunch at Meadow Lakes Restaurant. For information, contact Molly Kee, 541-447-7403.

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Three hurt in crash near Hoodoo ski area Three people were injured Saturday morning in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 20 near the Hoodoo ski resort, according to a news release from Oregon State Police.

At around 10 a.m., an eastbound vehicle driven by Ruth Speaker, 71, of Salem, lost control and crossed into oncoming traffic. Speaker’s vehicle collided with a westbound vehicle driven

by Catherine Kelley, 49, of Kennewick, Wash.

Speaker suffered serious injuries, while her two passengers suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. All three were transported to St. Charles Bend. Kelly and the two passengers in her vehicle did not require hospitalization.

Oregon AutoZone workers win class action The Associated Press PORTLAND — A jury has found that AutoZone Inc. forced its Oregon employees to work off the clock. Jurors awarded more than $108,000 to former and current workers.

The class-action lawsuit covers more than 1,000 workers from 27 stores in Oregon. Plaintiffs’ lawyer Bud Bailey says the damages primarily cover wages owed to employees for time that they were required to be at the store each day before opening and after closing.

The Multnomah County jury also found Friday that the company should compensate employees for their unpaid time spent driving from one store to another for work purposes.

An AutoZone spokesman said the company is reviewing the verdict as well as the appeal process.

The auto parts retailer is based in Memphis, Tenn.

Paul Carter / The (Eugene) Register-Guard

The post office building at Fifth Avenue and Willamette Street in Eugene, “kind of a landmark in the community,� is an excellent example of Depression-era art deco architecture. Much of the structure is empty, however, and the U.S. Postal Service is looking for a buyer.

MILITARY NOTES

Landmark Eugene building is faced with uncertain future

By Edward Russo The (Eugene) Register-Guard

EUGENE — When Eugene resident Bruce Johannes gets out-of-town visitors, he takes them to the downtown post office. But these are not simple get-the-mail errands.

Johannes brings his guests to the post office at Fifth Avenue and Willamette Street so they can see an architecturally significant and historic structure — Eugene’s only art deco public building, adorned with intricate detail and two Depression-era murals. “It’s kind of a landmark in the community,� Johannes said.

But with much of the structure empty, the money-losing U.S. Postal Service wants to find a buyer for the 71-yearold building. Whether anyone wants to buy the building, or what price the Postal Service might accept, is unknown.

But if a sale took place, the post office would either stay in the building by leasing space from the new owner, or if that is not possible, the post office

would leave the building entirely and move to another leased office downtown, a postal official has said.

This makes the future of the structure uncertain. Local historians and preservationists are worried about what could happen, though they are hopeful that the public’s ability to visit the building will not be restricted, even if it’s sold. “Eugene isn’t exactly on the vanguard of communities that have preserved a lot of its history,� said Bob Hart, the executive director of the Lane County Historical Society and Museum. “To help preserve and utilize one of those buildings so it’s not knocked down is rather important.�

Besides interesting architectural features, the post office has a rich local history.

The federal government constructed the building toward the end of the Depression for about $250,000.

Contractor George Issacson of Portland got the job in 1938 and hired unemployed workers

from Eugene and Lane County to build the two-story structure with a basement, according to Register-Guard articles from that time.

The Eugene post office was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 because of its architecture and the lobby on the first floor, where postal clerks help the public from behind a counter and 2,600 post office boxes line marble-covered walls. “The Eugene post office is an outstanding example of federal architecture completed during the Depression era,� wrote consultant H.J. Kolva, of Spokane, who prepared the nomination form that led to National Register listing.

Air National Guard Airman James Lovell graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. He is a 1998 graduate of Imbler High School and a 2002 graduate of Eastern Oregon University. He is the son of Arthur Lovell, of Summerville, and the brother of Tami Sample, of Bend. • Air Force Airman Daniel Mueller graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. He is a 2007 graduate of Mountain View High School, and the son of Doug Mueller, of Bend, and Ellen Gore, of Clarksville, Tenn.

COLLEGE NOTES The following students have been named to the fall 2009

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First untethered spacewalk takes place on this day in ’84 The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2010. There are 327 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY On Feb. 7, 1984, space shuttle Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk, which lasted nearly six hours.

ON THIS DATE In 1812, author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.

In 1857, a French court acquitted author Gustave Flaubert of obscenity for his serialized novel “Madame Bovary.�

In 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings.

In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president.

In 1943, the government announced the start of shoe rationing, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the remainder of the year.

In 1948, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff; he was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.

In 1971, women in Switzerland gained the right to vote through a national referendum, 12 years after a previous attempt failed.

In 1974, the island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain. In 1983, Elizabeth H. Dole was sworn in as the first female secretary of transportation by the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

In 1999, Jordan’s King Hussein died of cancer at age 63; he was succeeded by his eldest son, Abdullah.

TEN YEARS AGO With an astonishing come-

T O D AY I N H I S T O R Y back to win the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Tiger Woods gained his sixth straight PGA Tour victory, becoming the first player since Ben Hogan in 1948 to win six in a row. The Web site Yahoo! came under a “denial of service� attack by Internet vandals. Yugoslav Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic was gunned down in a Belgrade restaurant and died later in a hospital. Magician Doug Henning died in Los Angeles at age 52.

FIVE YEARS AGO President George W. Bush proposed a $2.57 trillion budget that would erase scores of programs but still worsen federal deficits by $42 billion over the next five years.

Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s. (Shanley was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison.)

Ellen MacArthur, a 28-yearold Englishwoman, broke the then-record for solo around-theworld sailing, completing the 26,000-mile circumnavigation after 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds at sea.

ONE YEAR AGO A miles-wide section of ice in Lake Erie broke away from the Ohio shoreline, trapping about 135 fishermen, some for as long as four hours, before they could be rescued. Walls of flame roared across southeastern Australia, leveling scores of homes, forests and farmland in the country’s worst wildfire disaster in a quarter century. Bolivia’s new constitution took effect. Death claimed jazz singer Blossom Dearie at age 84, country singer Molly Bee

at age 69, and Jack Cover, inventor of the Taser stun gun, at age 88.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Country singer Wilma Lee Cooper is 89. Author Gay Talese is 78. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) is 75. Actor Miguel Ferrer is 55.

Reggae musician Brian Travers (UB40) is 51. Comedy writer Robert Smigel is 50. Actor James Spader is 50. Country singer Garth Brooks is 48. Rock musician David Bryan (Bon Jovi) is 48. Actor-comedian Eddie Izzard is 48. Actor-comedian Chris Rock is 45. Actor Jason Gedrick is 43. Actress Essence Atkins is 38. Rock singer-musician Wes Borland is 35. Actor Ashton Kutcher is 32. Actress Tina Majorino is 25.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY “Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism.� — John Haynes Holmes, American clergyman and reformer (1879-1964)

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O Relief considered for jobless State studies what role age might play as benefits near expiration

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PORTLAND — James Butler’s mornings almost always start here, scanning the new job listings at an Oregon Employment Department center in north Portland.

Looking for work, Butler says, is a full-time job.

With Oregon’s unemployment rate stalled at a grim 11 percent, job hunters like Butler are finding little relief. Lawmakers say a priority of the special February legislative session is extending unemployment insurance coverage for about 18,000 Oregonians whose benefits have run out or soon will expire after two years.

But the help will be brief.

In coming months, thousands of Oregonians will see their final jobless benefits dry up, with no further emergency extensions in sight.

By April, about 1,000 Oregonians will exhaust their unemployment benefits each week.

“We’ll do everything we can to help them,” said Tom Fuller, a spokesman for the Oregon Employment Department. “But it will be help with job hunting or connecting to community resources.”

Bills to funnel $19 million into benefit extensions got unanimous approval in both chambers of the Legislature last week, and final approval is expected shortly. Officials hope the emergency measure will bridge long-term job hunters to spring, when employment opportunities traditionally improve.

Democratic Rep. Mike Schaufler of Happy Valley called the bill “better than nothing.”

“This is just one little tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny step to help the thousands of Oregonians who are out of work,” he said.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski also says he will continue to press Congress for federal money to extend benefits.

But economists say it will take several years for jobs to return just to 2007 levels. Only a big infusion of new jobs would make a

Photos by Rick Bowmer / The Associated Press

ABOVE: Job hunters search for work Wednesday at an Oregon Employment Department center in Salem. With jobless benefits set to dry up for many unemployed Oregonians, the Legislature is working to funnel more money into the program, but the $19 million is only intended to get long-term job seekers into spring. LEFT: Maureen Phelps, 59, searches for work Wednesday in Salem.

dent in unemployment — and that isn’t in the forecast.

“Is the job market going to turn significantly in the next two months?” said Tim Duy, a professor at the University of Oregon and director of the Oregon Economic Forum. “The answer is probably, ‘No.’ But certainly we’re seeing more stability in Oregon’s job market.

“The challenge is that we’ve lost a huge number of jobs over the last two years,” he added. “There’s just a huge number of people out of work and looking for work.”

More than 217,000 Oregonians collected weekly unemployment checks in the last week of January. But add in those who have taken part-time work to pay the bills, or who simply have given up, and Oregon’s unemployment

rate almost doubles.

“There’s going to be a rebound, there’s going to be hiring that’s occurring,” said state economist Tom Potiowsky, who releases his quarterly economic outlook next week. “But it’s going to be very slow going.”

Under the proposed legislation, people who exhaust their benefits after Jan. 1 could receive a six-week extension. A wave of 12,000 Oregonians will exhaust their benefits at the end of March and could receive a two-week extension.

It is almost unheard of that unemployed workers receive benefits for two years. But that shows the depth of Oregon’s economic woes.

Unemployed since last August — except for a one-day temp job

— Butler tries to remain confident that there’s an employer out there who needs his skills in customer service. But the 57-year-old has little proof for his optimism.

None of his applications have panned out.

“I can live cheaply,” said Butler, who said he receives about $150 weekly in unemployment benefits. “But what’s going to last longer? The benefits or my need?”

PORTLAND — Prompted by the death of a 15-year-old girl, Oregon’s Department of Human Services is studying whether age plays a factor when welfare workers choose which cases to investigate.

Jeannette Maples died in her Eugene home Dec. 9, and her mother and stepfather have been charged with murder. Human Services officials wonder whether welfare workers failed to act on calls reporting her abuse because she was older than many other child abuse victims.

State investigators are looking at whether the flawed screenings in her case were due to individual misjudgments or to a systemic problem of abuse screeners “over-relying upon a child’s age as part of their evaluation of child vulnerability.”

Their audit of a sample of closed cases is expected to be completed by March 1.

State and private social service leaders insist they see no evidence in the Portland area that child welfare workers are reluctant to act on abuse reports about older children.

“If the caller says a 16-year-old got punched in the face by his dad or a 4-year-old got punched in the face by dad, we’re assigning both of those,” said Stacey Ayers, program manager for child protective services. “The responses will be immediate.”

But there is a history of placing less emphasis on cases involving older children. In the 1990s, Oregon deliberately categorized older children as less vulnerable, under the theory that they could flee abusive homes if necessary. Officials

say they abandoned that practice after youth advocates challenged it.

“They have tried to get over that mentality,” said Kevin Donegan, director of homeless youth services for Janus Youth Programs Inc. in Portland. “Unfortunately, there is still some of that mindset in the state.”

Mark McKechnie, the executive director of the Juvenile Rights Project Inc., agrees that Portland-area social workers have responded better to abuse reports on older youths in recent years. But he said he still worries that state guidelines for screening abuse reports could lead some workers to conclude that older children are not vulnerable.

In a report released last week, state investigators said Maples’ age appears to have been “considered as a major factor in the conclusion that she was not vulnerable.”

At least three reports in 2007 and 2009, when Maples had become isolated in home school, should have triggered visits to her home by state child protection workers, the investigation concluded.

Instead, screeners chose against intervention after each call.

In the state’s Multnomah County Child Welfare Hotline office in Portland, social workers do not assume older children are less vulnerable, said Miriam Green, a program manager.

As a safeguard, she said, every report is shown to at least one supervisor and sometimes to police.

“We have to get it right 100 percent of the time,” Green said, “and we’re human beings.”

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Marked by the recession: Generations make different adjustments

Sawmill refuse in the Deschutes leads to 2 arrests 100 years ago

By Rick Montgomery

SAWMILL MEN ARRESTED In response to complaints filed by Game Warden J.S. Lilly, Henry Linster and H.J. Overturf were arrested last Wednesday on the charge of allowing refuse from their mills to get into the river at Bend.

Mr. Linster pleaded guilty and was given the minimum fine of $50. The complaint against him was made for allowing the shavings from his plane to blow into the river.

The charge was brought against Mr. Overturf as manager of the Pilot Butte Development Company’s sawmill.

This company burns a part of the refuse from its mill on a low ledge a few inches above the water’s edge. The recent high water reached this ledge and carried away some of the refuse.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sixty years and a dozen economic downturns separate Mason Heilman and his grandparents, Jack and Irene Carter. But tough times ultimately may connect them.

The Carters were kids of the Great Depression, branded by a 1930s thrift that burned deep into their thinking and future lifestyles. “Never played the stock market, because I’m not a gambler,” said Irene, 83, of Paola, Kan. Now, Heilman’s generation similarly has been etched by what some call the Great Recession.

The University of Kansas student president is hesitant to predict how long its marks may last.

It’s not the same, of course: He has his laptop, and Grandma began life without even electricity.

But research into past periods of bust, no matter how shallow or short, suggests many of today’s young adults will be more cautious, cost-conscious and wary of the fast track — perhaps for a lifetime.

Just as each generation played a different role in the run-up to our downturn — many accuse baby boomers of creating it — each is expected to make different adjustments in the post-recession years.

Different goals “Spending money is not an end; it’s a means to a possible end” of a purposeful life, said Heilman, 22. His double major in secondary education and political science foretells a future in teaching or some other public service, where he expects jobs — though none with six-figure bonuses — to be.

For most workers a bit older, in their 30s and early 40s, the plan is to change jobs as soon as the market allows, according to surveys by the global business consultant Deloitte LLP. Feeling squeezed between the baby boomers who boss them and the younger, cheaper “millennials” supposedly preferred by recruiters, only 37 percent of Generation Xers say they intend to stay with their current employers.

And the boomers? Man, they’ve got issues.

The wealthiest generation ever to walk the Earth also lost the most when the Dow and home values collapsed.

Collectively, boomers earned more than twice as much as their parents did at the same age — only to sink it into vast houses, vacation homes and a thousand flavors of investments. But they were far less interested in plainvanilla savings than were their elders.

About 70 percent of boomers were deemed “unprepared for retirement,” even before the stock market hit bottom last March. A 2008 McKinsey Global Institute analysis concluded: “Many are not even aware of their predicament.”

‘New Normal’ Recent surveys all agree the boomers now have taken to saving and paying off debt. In the post-recession, those 55 or older will need to keep piling cash away and work a couple of years beyond original retirement plans just to make up ground lost since 2007, economists say.

Delayed retirements, in turn, will clog the ladder of promotion for younger workers.

New Normal, it’s called.

“Normal” holds different meaning depending on whether you’re older or younger than 40.

As KU economist Mark Hirschey notes: “People who remember will say, ‘Why can’t this be like the 1990s?’ Well, nothing in our history was like the 1990s. It was unprecedented” — a consumer culture expanding largely on credit and imaginary wealth.

A high-tech bubble. A housing bubble. Overvalued stock portfolios. Not normal.

So now a spate of highbrow studies, market-research polls and magazine stories forecasts anything but a return to normal when the downturn is done. They say history will see this as a reboot, not just a blip.

Newsweek goes so far as to predict that “in the New Normal, more American workers will be holding wrenches and loading cargo (from solar panels to bags of grain) onto trains, a la the post-Depression generation, rather than fiddling with BlackBerrys.”

100 YEARS AGO For the week ending Feb. 6, 1910

WILL WORK STONE QUARRY Last week J.I. West sold a half interest in his 40-acre tract of stone to Joe Innes, and the owners plan to begin quarrying it just as soon as the necessary tools and machinery can be gotten in. Stone saws, an engine for hoisting and other power purposes, and various other equipment will be ordered at once.

This tract of stone lies just over Awbrey Butte, which adjoins the town in the west. It consists of a beautiful building stone colored with a pink tinge. It is soft and easily worked, and yet a fine stone for building purposes, and will undoubtedly go into the construction of many handsome buildings as the town develops.

75 YEARS AGO For the week ending Feb. 6, 1935 WINTER PLAYGROUNDS Only 10 years ago, we recall, it was virtually impossible to buy a pair of skis in Bend. They were in use in Central Oregon, it is true, but only by trout hatchery employees and trappers. R.N. Buchwalter, who had a sports goods store on the corner of Wall and Minnesota, did stock about a dozen pairs of skis one winter, but sold only half of these.

Now, Bend is “ski-minded,” just like the rest of the northwest, and “Telemark” and “Christiania turn” are familiar terms. The possibility of recreation in the white mountains is being realized by communities from Bellingham south to Klamath Falls. Queens of the snow are being elected, and reign over loyal subjects in mountains once considered forbidding and inaccessible during the winter months.

Seattle recreationists migrate weekly to their farfamed winter sports resort at Snoqualmie Pass. Tacoma has its Paradise Valley in Mt. Rainier national park, to which throngs of winter recreationists make weekend pilgrimages. Wenatchee has its winter playground in the Wenatchee national forest, and Yakima goes to American River for its winter outings. With “an hour and a half from roses to skiing,” as their slogan, some 25,000 Portland people recently moved into the majestic Mt. Hood area one Sunday for fun in the Cascade snows. Eugene Obsidians on New Year’s dedicated their new White Branch winter playground in the McKenzie country, with a ski run as one of the major attractions. Medford is developing its winter sports center at Union creek, in the Rogue River national forest.

Skiing in the Bend country has probably developed more rapidly than in any other community of the northwest, due in part to the Scandinavian origin of many residents of this city and in part to the activity of the Skyliners. Recognizing that winter sports are a distinct asset to the community, the Skyliners only this past week made plans for further expansion, with the development of a year-round recreation headquarters on upper Tumalo creek approved by a unanimous vote.

The Forest Service has rec-

Y E S T E R D AY ognized the part winter recreation plays in community upbuilding and in a number of localities is taking the initiative in building winter playgrounds. “These days,” forest officials say, “are teaching us that the commodity use of timber is not the only forest asset which holds an important place in the life of people and communities.”

50 YEARS AGO For the week ending Feb. 6, 1960 HISTORY DID NOT BYPASS DESCHUTES AREA, BUT IT LEFT FEW THINGS OF CUB INTEREST A Cub den mother called the other day to inquire about a place of historic interest where she could take her boys, as a part of their required training.

It was a good question, but a quick answer was not ready.

History did not bypass Central Oregon. But it left few markers that would capture the interest of a busy den of Cub Scouts. There are no ruins or forts in the Deschutes country, no shrines of historic interest.

Cubs are of the age when they would like to see history, not hear about it.

Possibly the best place to take Cubs on a history outing would be to the old site of Camp Polk, on Squaw Creek near Sisters. None of the old buildings remain, but in the evening shadows there is an aroma of history in the area where soldiers once paraded and waited for the long winter of 1865-66 to pass.

Camp Polk was occupied by a company under the command of Capt. Charles LaFollette. The camp was established at the time of the Indian uprisings in Eastern Oregon.

The Camp Polk soldiers never fired a shot at an enemy.

In the immediate Bend area, all possible shrines of history have disappeared. These include the cabin on the pioneer Farewell Bend Ranch, with its back against a rocky wall. It was a ranch that gave Bend its name.

Two possible shrines within the city limits of Bend have also disappeared. One was the pioneer cabin in Drake Park of the present. There Bend’s first school was taught — if the earlier school in the old John Sisemore home just south of town can be overlooked. A DAR rock and plaque mark the location of the old cabin in the park site.

Also gone is the A.M. Drake lodge. It was a handsome building from which grew a city, Bend.

Peter Skeen Ogden and his trappers passed through in 1825. Nathaniel Wyeth and his trappers moved across the Bend site in 1834, and Captain John C. Fremont and Kit Carson crossed Tumalo Creek just west of Bend in 1843.

Two lost wagon trains wandered over Central Oregon and marked their trails with graves. One was the train of 1845, the other was the big train of 1853, whose leaders mistook the Three Sisters for Diamond Peak. A mother and her babe on that train died at the present Bend site and were buried here.

Chief Paulina and his braves cut a deep trail over the midOregon rangelands. It ended suddenly in a lonely cove on Trout Creek where the chief died under gunfire.

There is plenty of history in the region. But missing are the material things that would interest boys of Cub age.

25 YEARS AGO For the week ending Feb. 6, 1985 LUTHER METKE AT 100 Luther Metke — logger, builder, philosopher and poet — will be back home in Camp Sherman in time to celebrate his 100th birthday.

The Central Oregon folk celebrity, who received national recognition when a biographical documentary film, “Luther Metke at 94,” was nominated for an Academy Award in 1980.

Until last fall, Metke lived alone in the Camp Sherman community in one of the numerous log houses he built in the past 20 years. He cooked his own meals, kept busy with various hobbies, and occasionally drove his 1958 Ford Mustang to the Camp Sherman Store to pick up the mail and buy groceries.

The award-winning movie noted highlights of Metke’s life and times as a homesteader, an early labor organizer, a bridge contractor, a painter and particularly as a builder of log cabins. He started his last log cabin when he was 92 and finished it when he was 94. At the age of 85, while caring for his wife, he single-handedly constructed an impressive two-story home.

The film also mentioned Metke’s other claims to fame, including his status as Oregon’s last survivor of the SpanishAmerican war.

Metke was born Feb. 20, 1885, in Buffalo, N.Y., and spent his early years in Minnesota.

At the age of 15, he enlisted in the Navy. He tells stories of adventures in China, when he sailed up the Yangtze River to Peking, and of the battles in the Spanish-American War. He returned from the Philippines on the battleship “Oregon.”

In 1907, he homesteaded at the present site of Sunriver, building a home that he would share with his bride in 1912. His wife, the former Anna Dobbs, was born in Ireland and had come to America at the age of 16.

Her sister, Mary, married Bob DeCourcey, who also had a claim on the Deschutes River near Sunriver.

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bridges in the area and also worked as loggers. Timber work started to slack off in the 1920s, and they decided to sell out.

They moved to Bend, and DeCourcey built the Troy Laundry, which he and Metke operated for several years.

Metke continued to work building roads and bridges and logging, and moved to Camp Sherman in the early 1940s.

In his 80s, he began writing poetry to his grandchildren.

His favorite themes were youth, education, ecology and spiritual values.

In 1983, he was Grand Marshall of Bend’s Christmas Parade.

When people ask him the secret of his longevity, he says: “I just had the right parents.”

His philosophy is summed up in one of his verses: “It isn’t what we have, It isn’t what we know. The only thing that matters Is the ‘good will’ seeds we sow.”

Compiled by Don Hoiness from archived copies of The Bulletin at the Des Chutes Historical Museum.

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“It was like thunder. I said, ‘I hope that’s not the mountain coming down.’

It was the mountain.”

— Dave Becica, who lives in the area of the slides but whose house was undamaged

Mudslides sweep away cars and demolish homes near L.A.

By Thomas Watkins The Associated Press

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. — Thunderous mudslides damaged dozens of homes, swept away cars and pushed furniture into the streets of the foothills north of Los Angeles on Saturday as intense winter rain poured down mountains denuded by a summer wildfire.

No injuries were reported, but residents and emergency responders were caught off guard by the unexpected ferocity of the storm, which damaged more than 40 homes and dozens of vehicles.

Five hundred homes were eventually evacuated at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains after heavy rains overflowed debris basins, carried away cement barricades, and filled houses with mud and rocks.

Some residents complained they were not told to get out until the brunt of the damage was done — unlike during heavy rains last month when officials repeatedly warned foothill communities to be on alert.

“Nobody knew it was going to be this bad,” said Katherine Markgraf, whose mother’s house was filled with more than 2 feet of mud, debris and tangled tree roots.

“Last time, they started warning us in time to prepare for it.”

The storm’s payload came between 4 and 5 a.m. Markgraf said she only got an alert around 10:30 a.m.

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Mud and debris cover a house Saturday after a mudslide in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. About 500 homes were eventually evacuated in the foothills north of Los Angeles because of the dangers posed by slides following heavy rains.

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Caught by surprise Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Matt Levesque said forecasters and county and city officials did not anticipate the magnitude of the slow-moving storm.

“If we had known there would have been this much rain, we would have evacuated,” Levesque said. “It was more rain than anyone thought, and more intense, too. And it stalled there over the hillsides.”

Rainfall totals topped 4 inches in a 24-hour period in some areas, the National Weather Service said.

Markgraf spoke to a reporter as she stood on Manistee Drive, a cul-de-sac under an overflowed debris basin at what appeared to be the epicenter of the storm’s damage.

Her mother Pat Anderson, president of the La Canada Chamber of Commerce, who lives in the house, had to call a neighbor to help her escape the rising mud in the predawn darkness. Anderson’s car had been sucked out of its garage and shoved against her next-door neighbor’s home.

Crews working along the road said some houses had been shifted from their foundations by the weight of the deluge.

“It’s surreal,” Markgraf said as she surveyed her childhood home with a video camera, documenting the damage for insurance purposes. “It’s nothing we expected.”

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swept through the house. Shoveling away what he could, the man declined to be interviewed.

Leslie Fernandes, 49, said he chose not to evacuate in order to try to divert flowing debris from his house.

“I heard a roar and a rumble, and I went to look outside, and there were cars swept down the street,” said Fernandes.

A retaining wall on Fernandes’ property burst, and 2 feet of mud was piled on his driveway, topped with a layer of ash from last summer’s wildfire.

“I’m glad I didn’t leave. Otherwise, we’d really be in trouble,” he said.

Neighbor Olivia Brown said she saw cars being washed down the street at speeds of up to 40 mph.

“It was going so fast, boulders were moving like they were pebbles,” Brown said.

up the road.

“I’m not going to complain, because our neighbors are in such a bad state,” Schroeder said.

By midmorning, the rain had tapered off, but forecasters said another storm system was expected later Saturday.

The evacuations were ordered in foothill areas of Sierra Madre, La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta and some parts of Acton.

“We’ve got crews going doorto-door to tell residents to get out,” said Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Frederick Stowers. “Some of the roads up there are a complete mess.”

Evacuation centers were set up at La Canada High School and at a recreation center in Sierra Madre. The Red Cross was working to establish other locations to shelter displaced residents.

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In a California town, birth defects, deaths and many questions

By Jesse McKinley New York Times News Service

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif.

— State and federal officials are scrambling to determine what caused the deaths of three children in this Central California farming town of about 1,500 that shares a ZIP code with the largest hazardous waste treatment site west of the Mississippi.

Over a 15-month period in 2007 and 2008, six children of mothers from Kettleman City were born with serious birth defects, including cleft palates, deformities and brain damage.

Three of those infants subsequently died.

And while health authorities have not placed any blame, the apparent cluster of defects has given new ammunition to environmentalists and local residents who have long been wary of the town’s proximity to the Kettleman Hills waste facility, a 1,600-acre landfill that lies in an unincorporated area less than four miles west of here.

“We’ve always been saying, ‘The sky is falling, the sky is falling,’” said Maricela MaresAlatorre, a Kettleman City resident and longtime critic of the facility. “Well, for those mothers, the sky fell.”

Last week, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency toured the landfill and visited with families of the children with birth defects. That action came less than a week after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the State Department

of Public Health and California’s Environmental Protection Agency to look into what he called “an abnormal percentage of birth defects” occurring here.

On Tuesday, the first report from the state is expected to be delivered to the Kings County Board of Supervisors, which recently approved an expansion of the waste facility, owned

by Waste Management, the largest recycler and wastehandling company in North America. The company operates hundreds of other landfills nationwide.

The company says it welcomes the investigation and the visit from the EPA’s regional administrator, Jared Blumenfeld.

“We were proud to showcase our sophisticated, state-of-theart facility,” Bob Henry, the senior district manager of the Kettleman Hills facility, said in a statement, “and provide him an opportunity to see, firsthand, why we set the standard for safely managing hazardous waste.”

Founded as a home base for workers in nearby oil fields, Kettleman City is now located just off Interstate 5, California’s major north-south corridor, where a steady stream of speeding cars and diesel-burning trucks rolls past. The town’s history is evident in the names of two of its main streets, General Petroleum and Standard Oil avenues, which border a small, worn park in the middle of town.

Emmanuel Alatorre, with his mother, Maura Alatorre, was born with a cleft nose and upper lip, and is missing part of his brain.

Surgery has corrected the clefts.

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The house next door was also filled with several feet of mud.

The handlebars of an exercise bike could be seen sticking out of the brown sludge, and a kidneyshaped swimming pool was filled to the brim with mud and rocks.

Couches, televisions and records were strewn about the buried yard.

Several residents said they woke up around 4 a.m. to the sound of crashing and rain pounding on their rooftops.

“It was like thunder,” said Dave Becica, whose house was undamaged. “I said, ‘I hope that’s not the mountain coming down.’ It was the mountain.”

Across the street, his neighbor was less fortunate. All the windows along the front of the house had been blown out, and mud had

More than a foot of debris was seen in at least 10 houses. Family photographs, toys, furniture and other items were dotted throughout the debris that gushed into yards and streets. At least five homes had been “red-tagged” by county inspectors, meaning they were unsafe to enter.

At one red-tagged home, crews dug by hand through at least 4 feet of mud to try and find the source of a natural gas leak.

Halfway along Ocean View Boulevard, where the hillside road flattens out, a jumble of 12 cars and trucks had come to a stop after being washed down the road.

A silver sport utility vehicle lay on top of a flattened Toyota, both completely mangled.

Another of the wrecked cars belonged to Kelly Schroeder, who had parked it Friday night outside her house a quarter-mile

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Betty Ann Luoma of Bend July 19, 1930 to Feb. 5, 2010 Arrangements: Autumn Funerals, Bend clarson@autumnfunerals.net 541-318-0842 Services: Mon. 2/8/2010 1:00 pm at Community Bible Church at Sunriver, #1 Theater Drive Sunriver OR. Contributions may be made to:

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Gloria Joy Geraths of Bend April 15, 1934 - Feb. 4, 2010 Arrangements: Baird Funeral Home of Bend, (541) 382-0903 Services: At her request no service Contributions: TRES ISLAS Orphanage Fund, 3717 Monroe, Ave. Cheyenne, Wyoming, 82001

Helen Wilhelmena Baker of Bend July 21,1919 - Jan. 30, 2010 Arrangements: Baird Funeral Home of Bend, (541) 382-0903 Services: Memorial Service to be held 3 pm to 5 pm , Feb.13, 2010 at: Cheerleaders, 913 NE 3rd St., Bend, OR

Jennifer Steven Blunt, of Bend Feb. 8, 1930 - Dec. 15th, 2009 Services: Private family services were held.

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Billie Lee Shull Anderson

Pryor “Art” App Legg Jr.

March 14, 1931 - Jan. 10, 2010

Dec. 6, 1921 – Feb. 1, 2010

Billie Lee Anderson (age 78) entered into rest Sunday, January 10, 2010.

Billie was born March 14, 1931, in Denver, CO, to Lottie and Oral Shull.

In 1947, she moved to Bend where she attended Bend High.

Later she and Billie Lee Shull met married Anderson former husband, Danny Anderson (deceased) with whom she had three daughters.

Billie worked in Bend at the Trailways Restaurant and the old Glen Vista Club. She also lived in the Sacramento area, where she worked for over 20 years in various positions for Montgomery Ward.

She returned to Bend in 2005.

Billie enjoyed spending time with family and keeping in touch with friends. She will truly be missed.

Billie is survived by daughters, Toni L. Hopper (Chris), Vickie L. Leslie (Henry) and Susan L. Anderson; grandchildren, Daniel, Andrew, Michael, Kelly, Roxanne, Jessica; 11 great-grandchildren; adored brother, Joseph Shull; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her beloved sister, Eddie Dickerson.

A celebration of her life will be held at her daughter's home in Redmond on Saturday, February 13, 2010, at 1:00 pm. For more information call 541-504-4690.

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Art was born in Surgoinsville, TN, and passed away at home in Redmond, Oregon.

Memorial service will be held on February 8, 2010, 1:00 p.m., at Redmond Memorial Chapel.

At 6 years of age, he moved to Cambridge, ID. He graduated from Cambridge High School. In April 1942, he joined the US Navy. He was an Aviation Machinists Mate and served in the South Pacific. He was discharged in 1948.

Leola Westfall and he, were married in Cambridge in September 1948. They had four children and moved to Redmond, Oregon in 1962.

He was a heavy equipment operator until he retired in 1987. He enjoyed rodeos, ranching, hunting and camping.

He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Leola; sons, Bryon and Joe; daughter, Marsha; 11 grandchildren; and 24 greatgrandchildren. He is also survived by a brother, Nelbert Legg; sisters, Irene Branch and Carol Smith.

He was preceded in death by brothers, Alvin and Wayne Legg; daughter, Vicky Fox, and great-grandson, Johnathan Zavala.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Redmond, 732 SW 23rd, Redmond, OR 97756.

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Jerilyn Ross, an advocate for the anxious New York Times News Service Jerilyn Ross, a therapist who helped hundreds of people overcome their worst anxieties and who became one of the country’s most visible and effective advocates for those with mental health problems, died Jan. 7 in Washington, D.C. She was 63 and lived in Potomac, Md. The cause was cancer, said her husband, Ronald Cohen.

A skilled therapist and exuberant optimist, she had her own radio show in the 1980s, where she became known as the “phobia lady.”

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Tomas Eloy Martinez, of Argentina, speaks during a conference in 2006 at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico. Martinez died of cancer Jan. 31 at the age of 75. Martinez was best known for his books exploring the lives of Argentina’s two best-known figures. “The Peron Novel” centers on Gen. Juan Domingo Peron, while “Santa Evita” is about Peron’s second wife, Eva.

Argentine author Martinez combined fact and fancy

By Margalit Fox New York Times News Service

Earl Barthe was master of plaster New York Times News Service Earl Barthe said that plastering and music “sort of rhyme.” Perched on a scaffold, he would burst into arias from “Carmen” or growl like Muddy Waters when installing a ceiling medallion.

“Curves,” Barthe said, “are conducive to the blues.”

A fifth-generation plasterer, the man known as Mr. B. epitomized the old-time craftsmen, from decorative masons to ironsmiths, who continue to provide a traditional flavor to the architectural jambalaya of New Orleans.

Barthe, who died Jan. 11 at the age of 87, created cornices, friezes and ceiling medallions whose character and workmanship drew recognition from the Smithsonian and the National Endowment for the Arts. And when Hurricane Katrina flooded his home, shop and the city he loved, Barthe deployed his skills to help reassemble interiors, whether it was a Bourbon Street restaurant or a Ninth Ward shotgun shack.

Tomas Eloy Martinez, a distinguished Argentine writer whose fiction mingled journalistic and novelistic techniques to conjure an Argentina more authentically strange and elusive than either fact or fiction alone might allow, died Jan. 31 in Buenos Aires. He was 75 and had homes in Buenos Aires and Highland Park, N.J. The cause was a brain tumor, said Carl Kirschner, a former chairman of the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University, where Martinez taught from 1995 until his death.

Interweaving factual reporting and magic realism with meditations on myth, history and the quicksilver nature of truth, Martinez’s two most famous novels explore the lives of Argentina’s two best-known and most enigmatic figures. The first, “The Peron Novel” (Pantheon, 1988; translated by Asa Zatz), originally appeared in Argentina in 1985 as “La Novela de Peron.” It centers on Gen. Juan Domingo Peron, the Argentine dictator who held the presidency from 1946 until he was deposed in 1955, and again from 1973 until his death in 1974.

The second, “Santa Evita” (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996; translated

by Helen Lane), was published in Argentina in 1995. It explores the life — or, more accurately, the afterlife — of Peron’s second wife, Eva. Both were best-sellers in Argentina and have been translated into dozens of languages.

Martinez was also known as a journalist, essayist and critic.

“If those in power have the right to imagine a history that is false, why then shouldn’t novelists attempt with their imaginations to discover the truth?”

— Tomas Eloy Martinez

In 1975, during the presidency of Peron’s third wife, Isabel, he went into exile after his reporting on Argentine paramilitary death squads provoked an assassination attempt. He did not return until the mid-1980s, after democracy was restored.

“The Peron Novel” opens in the early 1970s, as an aged Peron prepares to return to Argentina to reassume the presidency.

The narrative, which unspools through flashbacks, discursions and Peron’s chronic public selfmythologizing, straddles the terrain where memory, history and legend collide. In charting a dictator’s course, it also explores the nature of identity and the creation of posterity.

But perhaps nowhere more than in Martinez’s novel “Santa Evita” did fact and fancy conspire to capture the slippery reality of Argentina. The book follows the bizarre but true wanderings of Eva Peron’s embalmed corpse after her death from cancer in 1952.

After Peron was overthrown, the new government took pains to hide Eva’s body, which they

feared might be used by the opposition to rally support. Over the next two decades, the corpse was spirited around Argentina, off to Rome and eventually to Madrid, where it reposed in splendor in General Peron’s home, before making its way back to Argentina.

At the same time (this part is also true), several decoy corpses, fashioned from wax, fiberglass and other materials, and said to look remarkably like the real thing, were making contrapuntal journeys.

Small wonder, reviewers often said, that Martinez wrote in the style he did.

“Nothing is true; at the same time everything is true,” he said in an interview with the periodical Americas in 1998. “You see, in my part of the world, documents often were falsified by governments. There is almost nothing authentic.”

He added: “If those in power have the right to imagine a history that is false, why then shouldn’t novelists attempt with their imaginations to discover the truth?”

Imari Obadele fought for reparations, ‘New Afrika’ Teacher, writer led an organization that saw itself in a war of liberation, engaging the police in fights

By Douglas Martin New York Times News Service

Imari Obadele, a teacher and writer whose commitment to black empowerment fired a militant, sometimes violent effort to win reparations for descendants of slaves and to carve out, however quixotically, an AfricanAmerican republic in the Deep South, died Jan. 18 in Atlanta. He was 79.

The cause was a stroke, said Johnita Scott, his former wife.

Obadele was president of what he called the Republic of New Afrika, a country that existed as an idea. His provocative proposal was to have Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina — the heart of the old Confederacy — removed from the union and given over to black Americans.

The demand drew the national news media’s attention. The New York Times called it “bizarre.”

The proposal emerged in 1968, the year the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Black separatism was on the rise, with some advocates resurrecting 19th-century proposals for blacks to return to Africa.

Obadele, who had despaired of integration into white society, demanded American land as payback for the centuries of abuse blacks had suffered. He also asked for billions of dollars and became a leader of the reparations movement.

His organization saw itself as fighting a war of national liberation. It had a uniformed militia and engaged in gun battles with the police in Detroit and Jackson, Miss.; a police officer died in each.

In the Jackson face-off — a raid on the group’s headquarters in 1971 — murder charges against Obadele were eventually dropped, thought eight members

of his group were convicted. A year later, Obadele was convicted of conspiring to assault an FBI officer and served more than five years of a 12-year sentence.

Obadele and his supporters contended that they had become targets of the FBI because of their political views, pointing to threats and raids by the police in the months before the Mississippi confrontation. Amnesty International in 1977 called Obadele a political prisoner, one of the first Americans so designated.

The FBI was watching the group, as internal agency documents showed when they later became public. A 1968 agency memorandum urged that Obadele “be kept off the streets”; another called him one of America’s “most violence-prone black extremists.”

In his critique of American race relations, Obadele, who had a doctorate in political science,

argued that slaves should not have automatically been considered U.S. citizens after their emancipation because they were offered no choice in the matter.

If they had chosen not to become inferior members of a white society (the only possibility for them, as he saw it) or to move to another country, they should have been able to take land from the existing United States.

Obadele also started the advocacy group National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. Maulana Karenga, the black nationalist leader best known as the creator of Kwanzaa, the African-American celebration held in December, wrote in 2008 in The Sentinel, a black newspaper in Los Angeles, that Obadele’s work for reparations was “essential.”

Obadele’s views fueled a debate that had started during Reconstruction. In recent years, the issue has re-emerged among black intellectuals with the publication in 2000 of Randall Robinson’s book “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks” and an effort by the Harvard law professor

Charles J. Ogletree to assemble a top legal team to push for reparations.

Obadele was born Richard Bullock Henry in Philadelphia on May 2, 1930, one of 12 children.

He was an avid Boy Scout and as a young man helped his brother Milton start a civil rights organi-

zation that had W.E.B. Du Bois as a speaker. When Milton moved to Detroit, Richard followed.

Richard’s brother was a close friend of Malcolm X, and after Malcolm’s murder in 1965, Richard and Milton Henry helped form the Malcolm X Society to promote his views.

C OV ER S T OR I ES

Columbia spill shows action is needed, conservation group says

By Matthew Preusch The Oregonian

PORTLAND — Earlier this week, globs of black, powdery pollution spread across the Columbia River near Longview, Wash.

The milelong spill, first spotted Tuesday morning, turned out to be floating petroleum coke, an estimated 25 pounds worth, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

While the relatively small dump of industrial material likely didn’t directly harm fish or wildlife, its probable source is a company that has a long record of running afoul of rules protecting clean air and water. And an area environmental group says the spill shows a state agency needs to crack down on the company.

The 416-acre Chinook Ventures port facility that spill investigators are focusing on is already the source of a lawsuit.

A Cowlitz County community

group recently formed to oppose its presence, and Washington state regulators have known for years it is flouting federal air and water protection rules.

Now, this most recent spill has focused new attention on the Longview-based company and the agency responsible for policing its pollution, the Washington Department of Ecology.

“The news of any spill on the Columbia is disturbing,” Hood River-based Columbia Riverkeeper wrote to Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday. “The facts that are coming together in this particular matter raise grave questions about Ecology’s enforcement of environmental laws and protection of the Columbia River.”

In response to a request from The Oregonian, Chinook Ventures issued a statement this week saying the cause of the spill is still under investigation.

“We are obviously very con-

cerned with the matter and are working with the government agencies to determine the source of the release,” the statement said.

The site was for decades home to an aluminum smelting facility that ceased operations in 2003.

Chinook Ventures is developing it as a commercial port and has said it will clean up environmental damage on about 100 acres.

While the company is operating under a permit intended for smelting operations, it’s already using the land to import and export petroleum coke, or petcoke, a carbon-rich byproduct of oil refining used for fuel.

Washington state began asking the company four years ago to submit an application for the appropriate permit, and has repeated that request again and again. Then last year, the state fined the company $150,000 for a litany of environmental impacts.

Cell phones Continued from B1 “It’s funny how quickly people put away their cell phones when they see us,” he said. “There’s no doubt people still do it, but it’s not as prevalent anymore.”

Bend police officers have focused on warning people instead of citing them because people often take time to get accustomed to new laws, Esselstyn said.

“With a change like this, you have to give people time to adjust,” he said. “But as time goes on, you have to let them know the ... test is over, and it’s time to get serious.”

Statewide, Oregon State Police have cited 41 drivers for breaking the law, and 250 have been given warnings. Lt. Gregg Hastings said the situation is similar to when the mandatory seat belt law took effect in Oregon. People were having a hard time getting used to doing something new.

Redmond Police Department officers have cited nine motorists, seven have been given written warnings and several more received verbal warnings for using their cell phones on the road, said Lt. Nathan Garibay.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has not cited any drivers, but deputies are

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Andy Tullis / The Bulletin

Zachary Lusby, 13, of Sisters, plays Katherine Morse, 13, of Redmond, on Saturday during a chess tournament at Redmond High School. Zachary learned chess at age 5 from his dad, and they still play.

“I have beaten him, but he’s pretty tough,” Zachary says. “He doesn’t go easy on me anymore.”

Chess Continued from B1 She said the team includes her, one other girl, and “I don’t know how many boys.”

Losing to a girl bothers some of the boys she’s played, Rendi said.

“I beat one boy, and he did not say (anything),” she said. “Absolutely nothing.”

Nick Armstrong, 11, a fifthgrader at Cascades Academy in Bend, said the tournament was going well for him so far, with four wins in four games. Nick won the regional tournament last year and went on to state,

Cougar Continued from B1 The primary responsibility for dealing with conflicts between residents and animals, however, is with state Fish and Wildlife officials, he said.

where he was beaten pretty soundly. He said he’s improved a lot in the past year and expects to do better at this year’s state tournament.

“I like all the strategy, and how you have to look all over the board,” Nick said. “You can never rush your move.”

Like many of the kids at the tournament, Nick started playing chess with his father.

Zachary Lusby, 13, of Sisters, said his dad taught him chess when he was 5, and that winning a game is still an accomplishment.

“I have beaten him, but he’s pretty tough,” Zachary said. “He doesn’t go easy on me anymore.”

“Cougars, they’re wild animals, just like deer,” Biondi said. “They’re going to go where they want to go and do what they want to do.”

Wildlife experts say residents should not approach cougars, but also avoid running away so as not to provoke the cougar into chasing them. Residents in the Sisters

Recalling the way he’d squirmed in his seat and furrowed his brow throughout his most recent game, Zachary said a hard-fought chess game is as stressful as anything he’s done.

Tournaments are especially challenging, he said, and a day full of tough games will leave him exhausted.

“I’m really attached to the game, and it’s really important I work as hard as I can to do well,” he said. “It’s an intense sport — even if you’re not playing with your muscles.”

Scott Hammers can be reached at 541-383-0387 or at shammers@bendbulletin.com.

area are advised not to disturb deer carcasses, particularly if it appears the deer was killed by a cougar, and to supervise children and pets outside.

Scott Hammers can be reached at 541-383-0387 or at shammers@bendbulletin.com.

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THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 7, 2010 B7

“It’s funny how quickly people put away their cell phones when they see us.

There’s not doubt people still do it, but it’s not as prevalent anymore.”

— Steve Esselstyn, Bend police community liaison officer

stopping people who are seen using their cell phones, said Sgt. Marc Heckathorn.

Cmdr. Russ Wright of the Crook County Sheriff’s Office said he does not know of any drivers who have been cited in the area. Deputies are focusing on advising people of the new law. Wright said deputies will begin issuing more citations in the future but does not know when.

The new law has an excep-

tion for public safety officers and drivers who use their cell phones as part of their job.

There was some concern about who is exempt since the law does not cite specific professions. Officials in the area have not encountered any motorists offering that as an excuse to use their cell phones.

Andres Navarro can be reached at 541-617-7818 or at anavarro@bendbulletin.com.

W E AT H ER

B8 Sunday, February 7, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

THE BULLETIN WEATHER FORECAST

Maps and national forecast provided by Weather Central LLC ©2010.

TODAY, FEBRUARY 7

HIGH Ben Burkel

FORECASTS: LOCAL

STATE Western Ruggs

Condon

Maupin

45/32

41/31

49/31

37/29

Mitchell

Madras

Camp Sherman 43/24 Redmond Prineville 48/27 Cascadia 50/28 47/38 Sisters 46/26 Bend Post

48/27

45/36

36/15

SUN AND MOON SCHEDULE

Vancouver

45/24

45/23

46/25

43/24

Fort Rock

53/35

Grants Pass

44/21

Bend

Boise

48/27

46/31

Idaho Falls

Redding

38/10

47/26

45/27

Reno

Partly cloudy skies today into tonight.

Crater Lake

Elko

58/42

Christmas Valley Silver Lake

35/25

Helena 28/7

53/37

47/25

Chemult

36/16

Eugene

Eastern

Hampton

Crescent

Missoula

Portland 54/38

Burns

31/8

47/29

San Francisco

Sunrise today . . . . . . 7:15 a.m. Moon phases Sunset today . . . . . . 5:24 p.m. New First Full Sunrise tomorrow . . 7:14 a.m.

Sunset tomorrow. . . 5:25 p.m.

Moonrise today . . . . 2:55 a.m.

Moonset today . . . 11:36 a.m. Feb. 13 Feb. 21 Feb. 28

City

Salt Lake City

57/47

43/23

Yesterday Hi/Lo/Pcp

LOW

HIGH

Last

March 7

Sunday Hi/Lo/W

LOW

HIGH

Astoria . . . . . . . . 52/47/0.03 . . . . . . 57/38/c. . . . . . . 55/40/c Baker City . . . . . . 42/34/0.00 . . . . . 42/27/pc. . . . . . 38/28/pc Brookings . . . . . . . 50/47/NA . . . . . 55/45/pc. . . . . . 51/44/sh Burns. . . . . . . . . . 36/18/0.10 . . . . . . 39/21/c. . . . . . 37/22/pc Eugene . . . . . . . . 50/43/0.11 . . . . . . 53/35/c. . . . . . 54/36/pc Klamath Falls . . .45/34/trace . . . . . 46/29/pc. . . . . . 43/29/pc Lakeview. . . . . . . 45/27/0.00 . . . . . . 43/28/c. . . . . . 42/29/pc La Pine . . . . . . . . 36/29/0.17 . . . . . . 46/23/c. . . . . . 41/28/pc Medford . . . . . . . 54/43/0.01 . . . . . . 55/37/c. . . . . . 53/38/pc Newport . . . . . . . 54/48/0.09 . . . . . . 56/38/c. . . . . . 55/41/sh North Bend . . . . . 52/46/0.13 . . . . . . 54/41/c. . . . . . 51/42/sh Ontario . . . . . . . . 43/36/0.00 . . . . . 46/32/pc. . . . . . 40/31/pc Pendleton . . . . . . 48/31/0.00 . . . . . 46/31/pc. . . . . . 50/32/pc Portland . . . . . . . 53/41/0.00 . . . . . . 54/38/c. . . . . . 53/39/sh Prineville . . . . . . . 38/29/0.09 . . . . . . 50/28/c. . . . . . 47/27/pc Redmond. . . . . . . 37/31/0.09 . . . . . 47/27/pc. . . . . . 45/27/pc Roseburg. . . . . . . 52/44/0.09 . . . . . 56/40/pc. . . . . . 53/42/sh Salem . . . . . . . . . 50/41/0.03 . . . . . . 53/37/c. . . . . . 55/38/pc Sisters . . . . . . . . . 39/30/0.10 . . . . . . 46/26/c. . . . . . 42/25/pc The Dalles . . . . . . 48/43/0.02 . . . . . 49/35/pc. . . . . . 47/34/pc

TEMPERATURE

SKI REPORT

The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Index is for solar at noon.

LOW 0

MEDIUM 2

4

HIGH 6

PRECIPITATION

Yesterday’s weather through 4 p.m. in Bend High/Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37/32 24 hours ending 4 p.m.. . . . . . . . 0.11” Record high . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 in 1987 Month to date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.15” Record low. . . . . . . . . . . . . -16 in 1948 Average month to date. . . . . . . . 0.29” Average high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 Year to date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.05” Average low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Average year to date. . . . . . . . . . 2.05” Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.. . . 29.86 Record 24 hours . . . . . . . 0.52 in 1939 *Melted liquid equivalent

Tomorrow Rise Set Mercury . . . . . .6:15 a.m. . . . . . .3:26 p.m.

Venus . . . . . . . .7:40 a.m. . . . . . .5:56 p.m.

Mars. . . . . . . . .3:46 p.m. . . . . . .7:10 a.m.

Jupiter. . . . . . . .7:58 a.m. . . . . . .6:40 p.m.

Saturn. . . . . . . .9:01 p.m. . . . . . .9:15 a.m.

Uranus . . . . . . .8:40 a.m. . . . . . .8:22 p.m.

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LOW

47 31

ULTRAVIOLET INDEX Monday Hi/Lo/W

Mostly cloudy, chance of rain showers.

46 26

PLANET WATCH

OREGON CITIES

Calgary

56/41

46/24

La Pine

39/17

Yesterday’s regional extremes • 58° Seaside • 18° Burns

THURSDAY

Partly cloudy.

44 25

Partly to mostly cloudy skies in the west today, some more sunshine in the east.

Seattle

Partly to mostly cloudy skies today into tonight.

HIGH

BEND ALMANAC

Paulina

Brothers

LOW

45 27

54/43

WEDNESDAY Mostly cloudy.

NORTHWEST

Central

46/25

Sunriver

44/22

HIGH

27

16/3

46/23

Crescent Lake

LOW

51/29

49/32

Oakridge Elk Lake

Partly to mostly cloudy skies today into tonight.

50/33

51/34

44/34

Willowdale

Warm Springs

Marion Forks

TUESDAY Partly cloudy.

Tonight: Partly cloudy.

Today: Mostly cloudy, chance of mixed showers.

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Bob Shaw

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ROAD CONDITIONS Snow level and road conditions representing conditions at 5 p.m. yesterday. Key: T.T. = Traction Tires.

Ski report from around the state, representing conditions at 5 p.m. yesterday: Snow accumulation in inches Ski area Last 24 hours Base Depth Anthony Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 50-73 Hoodoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 30-58 Mt. Ashland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 66-92 Mt. Bachelor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 84-92 Mt. Hood Meadows . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 87-92 Mt. Hood Ski Bowl . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 18-35 Timberline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . 86-100 Warner Canyon . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 30-32 Willamette Pass . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 . . . . . . 22-42

Pass Conditions I-5 at Siskiyou Summit . . . . . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires I-84 at Cabbage Hill . . . . . . . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 20 at Santiam Pass . . . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 26 at Government Camp. . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 26 at Ochoco Divide . . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 58 at Willamette Pass . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 138 at Diamond Lake . . . . . Carry chains or T. Tires Hwy. 242 at McKenzie Pass . . . . . . . . .Closed for season

Aspen, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 Mammoth Mtn., California . . . . 4 Park City, Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Squaw Valley, California . . . . . . 4 Sun Valley, Idaho. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Taos, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 Vail, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

For up-to-minute conditions turn to: www.tripcheck.com or call 511

For links to the latest ski conditions visit: www.skicentral.com/oregon.html

. . . . . . 30-27 . . . . . 88-130 . . . . . . 45-67 . . . . 116-132 . . . . . . 32-67 . . . . . . 54-72 . . . . . . . . 36

Legend:W-weather, Pcp-precipitation, s-sun, pc-partial clouds, c-clouds, h-haze, sh-showers, r-rain, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, rs-rain-snow mix, w-wind, f-fog, dr-drizzle, tr-trace

TRAVELERS’ FORECAST NATIONAL

NATIONAL WEATHER SYSTEMS Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are high for the day.

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Yesterday’s U.S. extremes

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Seattle 56/41

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Halifax 23/13 Portland Billings Bismarck To ronto P ortland St. Paul (in the 48 29/18 22/2 19/-3 23/11 54/38 26/19 contiguous states): Boston Boise Rapid City 29/17 Green Bay Buffalo Detroit 46/31 24/-2 22/12 28/17 New York • 80° 26/13 33/21 Des Moines Kendall, Fla. Cheyenne Philadelphia Columbus 29/20 Chicago 30/10 24/7 30/18 29/20 • -12° San Francisco Omaha Salt Lake Washington, D. C. 33/18 57/47 Berlin, N.H. City Louisville Las 31/18 Denver 29/18 43/23 Vegas Kansas City • 4.11” 32/13 35/28 53/42 St. Louis Charlotte Torrance, Calif.

34/25 Los Angeles 45/24 Albuquerque 61/48 Oklahoma City Nashville Little Rock 47/31 38/36 38/23 45/32 Phoenix Atlanta 64/46 Honolulu 47/30 Birmingham 80/68 Dallas Tijuana 48/30 48/47 60/43 New Orleans 55/42 Orlando Houston 61/42 Chihuahua 58/53 67/36 Miami 70/52 Monterrey La Paz 68/48 74/54 Mazatlan 81/64 Anchorage 22/11 Juneau 35/30

FRONTS

Opposition gathers steam against California climate law

By Margot Roosevelt Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Republican politicians and conservative activists are launching a ballot campaign to suspend California’s landmark global-warming law, in what they hope will serve as a showcase for a national backlash against climate regulations.

Supporters say they have “solid commitments” of nearly $600,000 to pay signature gatherers for a November initiative aimed at delaying curbs on the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants and factories until the state’s California unemployment Gov. Arnold rate drops.

SchwarzenegGOP guberger has natorial candimade climate dates and Tea change one of Party organizhis signature ers paint the issues.

2006 law, considered a model for other state and federal efforts, as a job-killing interference in the economy.

Talk radio is flailing at what John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou, drivetime hosts on a Los Angeles radio station, call “the global-warming final solution act” promoted by “fascist, Nazi” officials.

“We are on fire,” said GOP Assemblyman Dan Logue, a sponsor of the proposed initiative.

“People are calling from all over the country. This will be the most intense campaign the state has seen in 50 years.”

Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the state’s Air Resources Board, which is implementing the law, known as Assembly Bill 32, called the initiative “a campaign that has to be taken seriously.”

“It would put all our efforts at energy efficiency and renewable energy in the deep freezer for a long time,” Nichols said.

The measure would halt proposed regulations until the state’s jobless rate dips to 5.5 percent or below for a year. That’s a level

“We are on fire. People are calling from all over the country. This will be the most intense campaign the state has seen in 50 years.”

— GOP Assemblyman Dan Logue, about a ballot campaign against California’s climate regulations

that California has not seen since 2007. California has one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates at 12.4 percent.

The effort to ignite a revolt in the Golden State comes as years of industry-backed campaigns have sown doubts about the scientific consensus behind global warming and as the public has become more concerned about the economy.

A survey last month by the Pew Research Center found that 28 percent of the public considers global warming a high priority, a drop of 10 points from 2007. The economy and jobs topped the agenda.

‘Not a freebie’ No major California company has endorsed the initiative yet.

But Gino DiCaro, a spokesman for the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, the state’s major industrial trade group, said last month: “The state’s greenhouse reduction program is not a freebie. Large costs foisted on an unemploymentriddled state economy and increased electricity rates ... are not affordable at this time, if ever.”

Sponsors of the California initiative, including Republican Rep. Tom McClintock, Ted Costa of the People’s Advocate, a Sacramento-based anti-tax group, and Thomas Hiltachk, an attorney with Republican Party ties, have dubbed the ballot initiative the California Jobs Initiative.

The official wording of the initiative, however, lies in the hands

of Attorney General Jerry Brown, an outspoken advocate of AB 32 and a presumptive Democratic Party candidate for governor. On Wednesday, his office discarded the “jobs initiative” title in favor of the unwieldy: “Suspends Air Pollution Control Laws Requiring Major Polluters to Report and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions That Cause Global Warming Until Unemployment Drops Below Specified Level for Full Year.”

Logue said that the pledged money would come in within two weeks, when the group is ready to begin gathering signatures.

However, Costa said there were disagreements among sponsors about strategy, including how much to rely on the Internet for signature gathering.

Industries have lobbied intensely against proposed regulations. Auto manufacturers unsuccessfully sued to overturn rules to slash carbon dioxide emissions from tailpipes. Oil refiners and truckers filed suit this week against a measure to reduce the carbon content of gasoline and diesel.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has made climate change one of his signature issues, is reportedly persuading major companies to remain on the sidelines.

The governor “absolutely opposes” the initiative, said spokesman Aaron McLear, adding that it is “deceptively written to protect big polluters and would keep us from staying number one in the country in creating clean tech jobs.”

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Mecca . . . . . . . . .79/59/0.00 . . .78/57/s . . . 86/65/s Mexico City. . . . .73/37/0.00 . . .70/48/s . . 71/50/pc Montreal. . . . . . . .18/7/0.00 . . . .16/2/c . . . . 19/8/c Moscow . . . . . . . 18/-8/0.00 . . .14/1/pc . . . . 13/2/c Nairobi . . . . . . . .72/61/0.06 . 84/62/pc . . 83/61/pc Nassau . . . . . . . .81/73/0.02 . . .76/66/s . . . 75/66/s New Delhi. . . . . .82/53/0.00 . 70/50/pc . . . 73/52/c Osaka . . . . . . . . .43/32/0.00 . . .45/33/s . . 58/49/sh Oslo. . . . . . . . . . .28/12/0.00 . . .26/15/c . . . 24/14/c Ottawa . . . . . . . . .16/3/0.00 . . . .16/2/c . . . . 18/7/c Paris. . . . . . . . . . .45/41/0.13 . . .36/21/s . . . 32/15/s Rio de Janeiro. . .99/81/0.00 . . .95/76/t . . 96/75/pc Rome. . . . . . . . . .54/41/0.56 . . .41/33/c . . . 40/30/s Santiago . . . . . . .81/52/0.00 . . .86/60/s . . . 89/61/s Sao Paulo . . . . . .91/68/0.00 . . .94/78/t . . . .92/76/t Sapporo. . . . . . . .23/10/0.62 . 27/19/pc . . 29/21/pc Seoul . . . . . . . . . .34/10/0.00 . . .31/18/c . . 45/31/pc Shanghai. . . . . . .48/45/0.00 . .66/52/sh . . . 69/53/s Singapore . . . . . .91/79/0.00 . 92/78/pc . . . .92/79/t Stockholm. . . . . .30/25/0.00 . 29/23/pc . . . 27/22/c Sydney. . . . . . . . .72/70/0.00 . . .79/69/t . . 80/68/sh Taipei. . . . . . . . . .68/63/0.00 . .74/67/sh . . 75/68/pc Tel Aviv . . . . . . . .57/39/0.07 . . .62/51/s . . 67/55/pc Tokyo. . . . . . . . . .46/32/0.00 . . .44/32/s . . 51/39/pc Toronto . . . . . . . .21/10/0.00 . . .23/11/c . . 26/14/pc Vancouver. . . . . .54/37/0.02 . .54/43/sh . . 50/41/pc Vienna. . . . . . . . .36/27/0.00 . 33/16/pc . . . 31/15/s Warsaw. . . . . . . .25/19/0.00 . . .28/9/pc . . . 26/7/pc

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THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010

In Grant County, snowmobilers far outnumber skiers, and the local riders are happy to give novices a hand

A FRUITFUL TRIP

TO STRAWBERRY COUNTRY

Authors offer perspectives on Redmond, Bend books Events will highlight local books in ‘Images of America’ series

By David Jasper The Bulletin

By John Gottberg Anderson For The Bulletin JOHN DAY — rom the High Lake Rim, the pan-

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oramic view of the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness stretches

for miles to the east and north. Pineforested slopes descend steeply to alpine lakes. A slim trail ascends to the summit of the 9,038-foot peak that gives the wilderness area its name.

Photos by John Gottberg Anderson / For The Bulletin

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It’s not easy to get to this viewpoint, located at about 8,000 feet elevation in a remote part of Eastern Oregon. There are no paved roads; a gravel route is maintained only seasonally by Malheur National Forest. Hiking is an option in summer, but in winter, there’s only one realistic way to visit the High Lake Rim: by N O R T H W E S T snowmobile.

That may not be TR AVE L an easy sell to those Central Oregonians Next week: Washington’s who are committed to non-mechanized Kitsap Peninsula means of off-road transportation. In winter, of course, that means traveling by skis or snowshoes. Here in Grant County, halfway between Deschutes County and the Snake River, snowmobilers far outnumber skiers, but local residents are not blind to the long-running conflict between the two camps of winter recreationists.

“We have more than 537 miles of snowmobile trails in this county, which makes it the largest system of any in the state,” said John Bastian, president of the Grant County Snowballers. “We do more than our share to open the national forest to everyone in winter. What’s more, we leave no trace after the snow is gone.”

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ABOVE: A snowmobiler rides his “sled” on the Crazy Creek Road south of Strawberry Mountain.

Riders from all over the state descended on Grant County last month for the annual convention of the Oregon State Snowmobile Association.

BELOW: Snow-covered Strawberry Mountain looms over the Eastern Oregon town of John Day. Most of the higher elevations of the 9,038foot peak are embraced within the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness, a 69,000-acre preserve within Malheur National Forest.

Paulina Springs Books in Redmond and Sisters will host presentations next weekend by the authors of “Images of America: Redmond” and “Images of America: Bend.” Both books were published in 2009 and are loaded with photos and text about 20th-century life in the Central Oregon towns.

Authors Trish Pinkerton and Leslie Pugmire Hole from the Redmond Spokesman — which will celebrate its 100th year of publication in July — will talk about the Redmond book, and Les Joslin from the Deschutes County Historical Society will present the Bend book.

The first event will be held Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Paulina Springs Books in Redmond, 422 S.W. Sixth St. (541-526-1491).

On Saturday, the trio will appear at 6:30 p.m. at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, 252 W. Hood St. (541-549-0866).

The books are part of a series by Arcadia Publishing, which published one on Prineville in 2007.

“With more than two hundred vintage black-andwhite photographs, each title celebrates a town or region, bringing to life the people, places and events that define the community,” according to www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Also next weekend, area poets will explore the landscape of love at Second Sunday in Bend. The monthly reading event at Bend Public Library lands on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, and organizers are taking that fact to heart.

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Members of the Skyhooks poetry group will read classic and original poems about love at Second Sunday on Feb. 14 at the Bend Public Library.

SPOTLIGHT

Music festival sponsors wine tasting Join the Sunriver Music Festival from 4 to 6 p.m.

Tuesday for a wine tasting introducing the 2010 Sunriver Music Festival-labeled wines. The tasting will be held at the music festival office in Building 25 of the Village at Sunriver.

For $5, receive a $5 credit toward gift items (concert tickets are excluded) and four tickets to sample any of the four special-label wines: Eola Hills Reserve La Creole 2008 Chardonnay and 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, and Duck Pond 2007 Pinot Gris and Red Blend. Light appetizers will also be served.

No RSVP is necessary.

Contact: 541-593-1084.

Polar Plunge helps Special Olympics Local law enforcement officials are inviting the public to take the plunge to raise money for Special Olympics. Participants in the Polar Plunge, a dip into the Deschutes River on Feb. 26 in Bend, must raise at least $50 and will receive a commemorative long-sleeve T-shirt, a bowl of soup and bragging rights.

Those too afraid to plunge can sign up for the fundraiser as a chicken and receive the same benefits as the plungers.

The organizers promise not to reveal who signed up as a chicken.

To register, visit www.soor.org or www.plunge oregon.com.

Contact: 800-452-6079.

— From staff reports

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C2 Sunday, February 7, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

Dad misses the affection he shared with sons when they were young Dear Abby: When my three sons were small, I used to kiss them on the lips as a sign of affection. Now they are 13, 11 and 8, and it has been several years since I have done it.

With the youngest, I can still get away with an occasional peck on the cheek — but not my older boys.

My family roots are Scandinavian. Growing up, I used to hate that we rarely showed our emotions. I vowed to be different, but now I’m afraid I have fallen into the same nondemonstrative pattern.

As a single dad who tries hard to lead by example, how do I reintroduce this healthy demonstration of love?

— Demonstrative Dad in Laguna, Calif.

Dear Dad: Your older boys may be less affectionate because they’re a teenager and a preteen and concerned that kissing you would appear unmasculine or childish.

It’s possible that when they’re older they will realize the importance of expressing warm emotions as you did.

Talk to your sons. Tell them you miss the demonstrations of affection and that while growing up you felt your family had missed out on something important.

Many families are extremely affectionate, and in many cultures demonstrations of affection between males is the norm.

Dear Abby: I’m an active senior citizen, very involved in my community.

Because I understand how important it is to stay technologically up-to-date and not be

DEAR ABBY

Talk to your sons. Tell them you miss the demonstrations of affection and that while growing up you felt your family had missed out on something important. buried in “the way it was,” I use a cell phone and am somewhat computer literate.

But I have reached my limit of patience with the extreme dependence on cell phones on the part of my family as well as others.

It’s increasingly hard to have a simple visit or dinner without constant interruption, to the point of rudeness. What has happened to us that we can’t spend time together without injecting an “Oops! Need to take this call”?

Abby, how about making a helpful list of courtesy rules to share with your readers?

— Grandma Joy in Richland, Miss.

Dear Grandma Joy: There is really just one “rule,” and it’s

longstanding: When carrying on a conversation — or sharing a meal — give your companion your undivided attention.

Taking a phone call and allowing yourself to be interrupted sends a message that the person you are with is less important than the caller.

The only exceptions to this I can think of would be an emergency call from a family member, baby-sitter or employer — or if the person being called was a doctor. Or bail bondsman.

Dear Abby: My extended family has frequent birthday parties, usually on Sundays.

My sister-in-law recently changed jobs so she is no longer able to attend. She sends empty containers along with my brother so he can take home leftovers for her.

If we go out to a restaurant, she has him order a meal to take home. (Our mother picks up the bill.)

Personally, I think what my sister-in-law is doing is rude. Is this something new?

— Laurie in Minneapolis Dear Laurie: It is not unusual for family members to take leftovers home from a house party if someone can’t attend.

But to expect a host to pay for a takeout dinner from a restaurant for a guest who did not attend is, in my opinion, presumptuous.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

‘Morning Joe’ duo aim for discerning viewers

By John Timpane

The success of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is largely due to the unlikely chemistry between co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Mika and Joe want to make you late for work.

They want their smart repartee and influential guests to so engross you, the intelligent viewer, that you’ll forget what time it is.

Mika is Mika Brzezinski, whose new book is titled “All Things at Once,” a memoir of her bumpy TV career. She’s been doing a sort-of book tour with her TV partner, Joe Scarborough, as a way to bring the Mika-and-Joe brand to the people.

They co-host “Morning Joe,” MSNBC’s breakfasttime news show, which runs from 6 to 9 a.m. “Morning Joe” amounts to a cable-TV bet: that a smart show can find and keep an audience that, if relatively modest, is steady and competitive.

When DJ Don Imus went down in flames in April 2007, MSNBC searched for a workable morning show.

“Morning Joe” emerged from the wreck, and after some tweaks, the show has found an audience, thanks largely to the unlikely chemistry between the co-hosts.

Brzezinski, 42, and Scarborough, 46, present an image of political diversity not often seen on TV. Scarborough is a conservative, a former U.S. House representative for the 1st District of Florida. Brzezinski, daughter

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of former U.S. Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski, is a selfdescribed progressive whose family has long been active in Democratic causes. (Scarborough jokes that “it’s something you almost never see: a sensible conservative and a rational progressive.”)

Awkward at first, the show has grown into something unexpected: a model of how people who disagree (flinty but lovable male conservative and empathetic but tough female liberal) can still get along.

When Brzezinski says something Scarborough dislikes, he rolls his eyes. When he says something she can’t stand, she does not hide her distress.

Yet this is no “Firing Line,” no “Point/Counterpoint,” no toxic misrepresentation of tit-for-tat gotcha advocacy as political discourse. More like a family that enjoys a good political row over toast and coffee, and looks forward to the next breakfast.

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THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 7, 2010 C3

CALENDAR TODAY FIDDLERS JAM: Listen or dance at the Oregon Old Time Fiddlers Jam; donations accepted; 1-4 p.m.; Pine Forest Grange, 63214 N.E. Boyd Acres Road, Bend; 541-447-7395.

BUNCO PARTY: Featuring games, prizes and refreshments; proceeds benefit Prineville Habitat for Humanity; $5; 2 p.m.; Eagles Lodge & Club, 235 N.E. Fourth St., Prineville; 541-447-7903.

RISE UP & REBUILD: Featuring a performance by Lakes, with Person People, Larry and His Flask, Leif James & The Struggle, Haylee & Amanda, and slam poetry by Manifestdestiny; proceeds benefit Haitian relief efforts; $5; 4 p.m.; Domino Room, 51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-788-1497 or www .riseupinternational.com.

MONDAY No events listed

TUESDAY SIP, SAVOR AND SUPPORT QUOTA INTERNATIONAL: Wine tasting with live music; a portion of proceeds benefits Quota International; $10; 5-8 p.m.; WineStyles, 1740 N.W. Pence Lane, Bend; 541-389-8889.

“A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION WITH GARRISON KEILLOR”: An encore from Keillor’s show, with featured guest Elvis Costello; $20; 8 p.m.; Regal Old Mill Stadium 16, 680 S.W. Powerhouse Drive, Bend; 541382-6347 or www.fathomevents.com.

WEDNESDAY “SO WHAT’S GOING ON OVER THERE?”: Irv Nygren speaks in preparation for Greg Mortenson’s lecture on building peace in Pakistan and Afghanistan; free; noon-1 p.m.; Central Oregon Community College, Robert L. Barber Library, 2600 N.W. College Way, Bend; 541-383-7559.

ANIME MANIA!: Watch anime and make sushi; open to grades six through 12; free; 1:30-3:30 p.m.; Sunriver Area Public Library, 56855 Venture Lane; 541-312-1080 or www.dpls.us/calendar.

THE STAXX BROTHERS: The Seattle-based rock and soul group performs; free; 7 p.m.; McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-382-5174 or www.mcmenamins.com.

POETRY SLAM: A live poetry reading open to competitors and spectators; $3; 8 p.m.; Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom, 24 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-388-8331 or www .myspace.com/bendpoetryslam.

SLIGHTLY STOOPID: Californiabased reggae, hip-hop, rock group performs, with The Aggrolites and Ablaze; $20 plus service charges in advance, $25 at the door; 9 p.m., doors open 8 p.m.; Midtown Ballroom, 51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; www.randompresents.com.

THURSDAY GOOD CHAIR, GREAT BOOKS: Read and discuss “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin; free; noon-1 p.m.; Redmond Public Library, 827 S.W. Deschutes Ave.; 541-312-1064 or www.dpls.us/calendar.

SPAY-GHETTI BENEFIT DINNER: Benefiting the Humane Society of Redmond’s spay and neuter program; reservations recommended; $12.95, $8.95 ages 12 and younger; 5-8 p.m.; The View Restaurant, Juniper Golf Course, 1938 S.W. Elkhorn Ave., Redmond; 541-923-0882.

“MURDER ON THE MENU”: Buckboard Productions presents a dinner theater murder mystery; proceeds benefit NeighborImpact; $25 in advance, $30 at the door; bring a donation of nonperishable food; 6 p.m., dinner begins at 7 p.m.; The Design Center, 2127 U.S. Highway 97, Redmond; 541-633-0297 or 541-548-6900.

BUILDING PEACE IN PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN: Greg Mortenson, author of “Three Cups of Tea,” talks about his work promoting education in Afghanistan and Pakistan and signs his books; SOLD OUT; 7 p.m.; Bend High School, 230 N.E. Sixth St.; 541-383-7575 or http://foundation.cocc.edu/vsp.

“ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST”: Preview night of Cascades Theatrical Company’s presentation of the story of a charming rogue committed to a mental institution; adapted from the novel

by Ken Kesey; $10; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www .cascadestheatrical.org.

AMERICAN NOBODY: The Portland artist performs looped folkrock; free; 8:30-11 p.m.; 28, 920 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541-385-0828.

FRIDAY BEND WINTERFEST: Winter carnival featuring ice carving, children’s activities, rail jams, ice skating, music, beer gardens and more; admission buttons good for all three days; $6 for

WinterFest button in advance, $7 at the door; 5-10 p.m.; Old Mill District, 661 S.W. Powerhouse Drive; 541-3230964 or www.bendwinterfest.com.

“DARWIN’S LEGACY — 200 YEARS OF INSIGHTS AND CHALLENGES”: Featuring “Genetics and the Origin of the Species,” a presentation featuring the mechanisms of evolution and new techniques and insights used to examine Darwin’s theory; with William Cresko; $10, $3 students, $8 members of the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory; 6:30 p.m.; Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, 57245 River Road; 541-593-4394.

AUTHOR PRESENTATION: Trish Pinkerton and Leslie Pugmire Hole speak about their book “Images of America: Redmond”; Les Joslin will speak about the book “Images of America: Bend”; free; 6:30 p.m.; Paulina Springs Books, 422 S.W. Sixth St., Redmond; 541-526-1491.

“THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK”: The Bend High School theater arts department presents the tale of a girl in hiding during the Holocaust; a portion of proceeds benefits Pennies for Peace; $7, $5 students and seniors; 7 p.m.; Bend High School, 230 N.E. Sixth St.; 541-383-6291.

“ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST”: Opening night of Cascades Theatrical Company’s presentation of the story of a charming rogue committed to a mental institution; adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www.cascadestheatrical.org.

“THE THIRD MAN”: A screening of the 1949 unrated film; free; 7:30 p.m.; Jefferson County Library, Rodriguez Annex, 134 S.E. E St., Madras; 541-475-3351 or www.jcld.org.

DANNY MALONE: The Austin, Texas-based indie-folk rock musician performs; $5; 9 p.m.; Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom, 24 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-388-8331 or www.myspace .com/silvermoonbrewing.

WILLIAMS & REE: The comedy team performs; ages 21 and older; $15, $20 or $25; 9 p.m., doors open 8 p.m.; Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort & Casino, 100 Main St., Warm Springs; 541-553-1112 or http://kahneeta.com.

SATURDAY ROBOTICS GARAGE SALE FUNDRAISER: A sale of furniture, books, clothes, sports equipment and more; proceeds benefit the High Desert Droids Robotics Team; free; 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Mountain View High School, 2755 N.E. 27th St., Bend; 541-389-7904, robotics@bendbroadband.com or www.team753.com.

“SIN IN THE SAGEBRUSH” EXHIBIT OPENS: New exhibit explores the lives of people who sought their fortune on the Western frontier; includes a re-created saloon and live portrayals of denizens; exhibit runs through September; included in the price of admission; $10 adults, $9 ages 65 and older, $6 ages 5-12, free ages 4 and younger; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; High Desert Museum, 59800 S. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-4754 or www. highdesertmuseum.org.

BEND WINTERFEST: Winter carnival featuring ice carving, children’s activities, rail jams, ice skating, music, beer gardens and more; admission buttons good for all three days; $6 for WinterFest button in advance, $7 at the door; 11 a.m.10 p.m.; Old Mill District, 661 S.W. Powerhouse Drive; 541-323-0964 or www.bendwinterfest.com.

“UBUNTU — THE RESPONSIBILITY OF BEING HUMAN”: Nontumbi Naomi Tutu talks about “ubuntu,” the concept of humanness; $30, or $10 for students in advance, $40 at the door; 1-4 p.m.; First Presbyterian Church, 230 N.E. Ninth St., Bend; 541-383-4179 or www.sacredartofliving.org.

BOOK DISCUSSION: Talk about “The Ghost Map,” by Steven Johnson; free; 1 p.m.; Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2690 E. U.S. Highway 20, Bend; 541-318-7242.

CENTRAL OREGON SYMPHONY CHILDREN’S CONCERT: The Central Oregon Symphony performs an interactive children’s concert, under the direction of Michael Gesme; recommended for ages 5 and older; free; 2 p.m.; Bend High School, 230 N.E. Sixth St.; 541-317-3941.

VALENTINE SPAGHETTI DINNER: Dinner includes spaghetti, salad, bread, dessert and beverages; proceeds benefit youth activities at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church; $5, $20 per family; 4:30-7:30 p.m.; Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 16137 Burgess Road, La Pine; 541-536-1992 or 541-536-3571.

MULE DEER CLASSIC: Featuring games, dinner, raffles and auctions; proceeds benefit the Oregon Hunters Association; $35; 5 p.m.; Seventh Mountain Resort, 18575 S.W. Century Drive, Bend; 541-330-6218.

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ROCK BENEFIT CONCERT: Featuring performances by Mosley Wotta, We Are Brontosaurus, The Autonomics and The Tree Dwellers; proceeds benefit Bend Area Habitat for Humanity’s youth build and Rise Up International; $5; 6 p.m.; Rise Up, 1560 N.E. First St., Suite 8, Bend; 541-385-5387.

AUTHOR PRESENTATION: Trish Pinkerton and Leslie Pugmire Hole speak about their book “Images of America: Redmond”; Les Joslin will speak about the book “Images of America: Bend”; free; 6:30 p.m.; Paulina Springs Books, 252 W. Hood Ave., Sisters; 541-549-0866.

“SNOW CHILD”: The Madras High School drama department presents the Russian story of a couple who long for a child and the magic of their holiday wishes; $5; 7 p.m.; Madras High School, 390 S.E. 10th St.; 541-475-7265.

“THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK”: The Bend High School theater arts department presents the tale of a girl in hiding during the Holocaust; a portion of proceeds benefits Pennies for Peace; $7, $5 students and seniors; 7 p.m.; Bend High School, 230 N.E. Sixth St.; 541-383-6291.

CENTRAL OREGON DANCE SHOWCASE: Terpsichorean Dance Studio’s Performing Company presents a dance showcase, featuring performances by Bali Ram and 25 local dance studios; $12 in advance, $15 at the door; 7 p.m.; Mountain View High School, 2755 N.E. 27th St., Bend; 541-389-5351.

TRACY REYNOLDS: The Nashville, Tenn.-based country singer performs; free; 7-9 p.m.; Cork Cellars Wine Bar & Bottle Shop, 101 Elm St., Suite A, Sisters; 541-549-2675.

CASINO NIGHT: Featuring a variety of games; ages 21 and older; $20; 7:15 p.m.; St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church & School, 2450 N.E. 27th St., Bend; 541-382-3631, ext. 113.

“ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents the story of a charming rogue committed to a mental institution; adapted from the novel

by Ken Kesey; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www. cascadestheatrical.org.

BEND COMMUNITY CONTRADANCE: Featuring caller Joe Michaels and music by Cascade Crossing; preceded by a waltz workshop; $7, $15 includes waltz workshop; 3-5 p.m. waltz workshop, 7 p.m. beginner s workshop, 7:30 p.m. dance; Highland Magnet School, 701 N.W. Newport Ave.; 541-330-8943.

WINTERFEST AFTERPARTY: Featuring Ashland-based Brynna Dean and her Sympathetic Strings; $5, $3 with WinterFest button; 9 p.m.; Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom, 24 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-388-8331 or www .myspace.com/silvermoonbrewing.

SUNDAY Feb. 14 BEND WINTERFEST: Winter carnival featuring ice carving, children’s activities, rail jams, ice skating, music, beer gardens and more; admission buttons good for all three days; $6 for WinterFest button in advance, $7 at the door; 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Old Mill District, 661 S.W. Powerhouse Drive; 541323-0964 or www.bendwinterfest .com.

“HAPPILY EVER AFTER — A CINDERELLA TALE”: Pushcart Players presents an interpretation of the classic story; $10, $7.50 ages 12 and younger; 2 p.m.; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; 541-317-0700 or www.towertheatre.org.

“ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents the story of a charming rogue committed to a mental institution; adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 2 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www.cascadestheatrical.org.

“SNOW CHILD”: The Madras High School drama department presents the Russian story of a couple who long for a child, and the magic of their holiday wishes; $5; 2 p.m.; Madras High School, 390 S.E. 10th St.; 541-475-7265.

SECOND SUNDAY: The Skyhooks Writing Group and the High Desert Poetry Cell read their own work and read love poetry from across cultures and centuries; followed by an open mic; free; 3 p.m.; Bend Public Library, Brooks Room, 601 N.W. Wall St.; 541-312-1034.

SENIOR SOCIAL NIGHT: Central Oregon Senior Singles, for singles ages 50 and older, will meet for socializing; free; 4-6 p.m.; The Riverhouse Hotel & Convention Center, 3075 N. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-410-6828 or srt1955@msn.com.

VALENTINE’S DAY MURDER MYSTERY DINNER: Buckboard Productions presents “Who Shot the Sheriff?” an interactive murder mystery dinner theater; reservations recommended; $55; 5 p.m.; Coyote

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VALENTINE’S CONCERT AND DINNER: The Sunriver Music Festival presents Tom Grant playing original compositions and romantic favorites; meal will include a threecourse menu and wine; reservations required; $75; 6 p.m.; Sunriver Resort Great Hall, 17728 Abbot Drive; 541-593-9310, tickets@sunrivermusic.org or www.sunrivermusic.org.

MONTANA SLIM STRING BAND: The San Francisco-based newgrass band performs; $8, $15 for two; 7 p.m.; Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom, 24 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-388-8331 or www.myspace .com/silvermoonbrewing.

TUESDAY Feb. 16 “WESTERN PORTS OF OUR PAST”: Bend Genealogical Society presents a program by Curt Lantz; free; 10 a.m.; Williamson Hall, 2200 N.E. U.S. Highway 20, Bend; 541317-8978,541-317-9553 or www .orgenweb.org/deschutes/bend-gs.

SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER: Featuring pancakes, sausage, applesauce and drinks; $4, $2 ages 4-12, free ages 3 and younger, $10 families; 5-7 p.m.; Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, 68825 N. Brooks Camp Road, Sisters; 541-595-5338.

WEDNESDAY Feb. 17 “FOR THE NEXT 7 GENERATIONS”: A screening and discussion of the film by the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers; free; 4-6 p.m.; Central Oregon Community College, Hitchcock Auditorium, 2600 N.W. College Way, Bend; 541-383-7412.

BLUE TURTLE SEDUCTION: The South Lake Tahoe, Calif.-based roots-rock band performs; free; 7 p.m.; McMenamins Old St. Francis School, 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend; 541382-5174 or http://mcmenamins.com.

“ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents the story of a charming rogue committed to a mental institution; adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www.cascadestheatrical.org.

THURSDAY Feb. 18 BOOK DISCUSSION: Discuss Greg Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea”; free; 4-5 p.m.; Central Oregon Community College, Robert L. Barber Library, 2600 N.W. College Way, Bend; 541-383-7559.

SKI-IN DINNER: Ski to Elk Lake Resort for dinner, then ride back; RSVP required; $79; 4 p.m., dinner begins 7 p.m.; Dutchman Flat, 22 miles west of Bend on state Highway 46, Bend; 541-385-8080.

READ! WATCH! DISCUSS!: A screening of the film “Pay It Forward,” followed by a discussion Feb. 25; free; 5:30 p.m.; Bend Public Library, Brooks Room, 601 N.W. Wall St.; 541-312-1039.

JEREMY GIMPEL LECTURE: Gimpel, host of “Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem,” talks about Israel and Zionism; free; 7 p.m.; Three Sisters Fellowship, 442 Trinity Way; 541-549-4290.

“ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents the story of a charming rogue committed to a mental institution; adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www.cascadestheatrical.org.

FRIDAY

M T For Sunday, Feb. 7

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BROKEN EMBRACES (R) 11:55 a.m., 2:40, 5:20, 8:05 CRAZY HEART (R) 12:20, 2:55, 5:35, 8:10 AN EDUCATION (PG-13) 2:45, 5:25 THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (PG-13) 11:50 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:40 IT’S COMPLICATED (R) Noon, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50 PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE (R) 12:10, 8 THE YOUNG VICTORIA (PG) 12:25, 3, 5:40, 8:15

REGAL OLD MILL STADIUM 16 680 S.W. Powerhouse Drive, Bend 541-382-6347

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL (PG) 11:45 a.m., 1:55, 4:10 AVATAR (PG-13) 9:45 a.m., 1:10, 4:40, 8:05 AVATAR 3-D (PG-13) 9:15 a.m., 12:40, 4:05, 7:30, 10:50 THE BLIND SIDE (PG-13) 9:25 a.m., 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:55 THE BOOK OF ELI (R) 11:40 a.m., 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 DEAR JOHN (PG-13) 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:35 EDGE OF DARKNESS (R) 11:25 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:25 EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES (PG) 6:45, 9:20 FROM PARIS WITH LOVE (R) 9:30 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:20, 7:55, 10:15 IT’S COMPLICATED (R) 9:35 a.m., 1, 3:50, 6:35, 10:05 LEAP YEAR (PG) 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:30, 6:50, 9:25 LEGION (R) 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 5:15, 8, 10:30 THE LOVELY BONES (PG-13) 10 a.m., 1:35, 4:35, 7:40, 10:40 SHERLOCK HOLMES (PG-13) 9:55 a.m., 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 TOOTH FAIRY (PG)

11:30 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 UP IN THE AIR (R) 9:50 a.m., 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 WHEN IN ROME (PG-13) 9:40 a.m., noon, 2:35, 4:55, 7:10, 9:40 EDITOR’S NOTE: Movie Times in bold are open-captioned showtimes.

EDITOR’S NOTE: There is an additional $3.50 fee for 3-D movies.

MCMENAMINS OLD ST. FRANCIS SCHOOL 700 N.W. Bond St., Bend 541-330-8562

(After 7 p.m. shows 21 and over only. Under 21 may attend screenings before 7 p.m. if accompanied by a legal guardian.)

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (PG-13) 8:30 EDITOR’S NOTE: Super Bowl XLIV will screen at 3 p.m. today. Doors open at 2 p.m.

REDMOND CINEMAS 1535 S.W. Odem Medo Road, Redmond 541-548-8777

AVATAR (PG-13) 10:45 a.m., 2, 5:15, 8:30 THE BOOK OF ELI (R) 11 a.m., 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9 TOOTH FAIRY (PG) 10:40 a.m., 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 WHEN IN ROME (PG-13) 11 a.m., 1, 3, 5, 7:15, 9:15

SISTERS MOVIE HOUSE 720 Desperado Court, Sisters 541-549-8800

DEAR JOHN (PG-13) 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 EDGE OF DARKNESS (R) 1:30, 4, 6:30 THE LOVELY BONES (PG-13) 6:15 NINE (PG-13) 2 TOOTH FAIRY (PG) 1:30, 4 UP IN THE AIR (R) 4:30, 7

PINE THEATER 214 N. Main St., Prineville 541-416-1014

BOOK OF ELI (R) 1, 7 PLANET 51 (PG) 4

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Feb. 19 “FLY AWAY HOME”: A screening of the PG-rated 1996 film, starring Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin; $10, $7.50 ages 12 and younger; 7 p.m.; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; 541-317-0700 or www.towertheatre.org.

“9”: A screening of the 2009 PG-13rated film; free; 7:30 p.m.; Jefferson County Library, Rodriguez Annex, 134 S.E. E St., Madras; 541-4753351 or www.jcld.org.

“ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST”: Cascades Theatrical Company presents the story of a charming rogue committed to a mental institution; adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey; $20, $15 seniors, $12 students; 7:30 p.m.; Greenwood Playhouse, 148 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-0803 or www.cascadestheatrical.org.

ARCHAEOLOGYFEST FILM SERIES: The best films from the 2009 The Archaeology Channel festival; $6; 7:30 p.m., doors open 7 p.m.; Central Oregon Community College, Boyle Education Center, 2600 N.W. College Way, Bend; 541-345-5538, EXECAST09@aol.com or www.archaeologychannel.org.

Valentine’s Weekend Menu New York Steak

Filet Bistro

12 oz Choice New York Steak A choice cut Tenderloin Steak from the Grill, Grilled to your choice. Served with Garlic Roasted served with an Artichoke Crown filled with Onion soufflé topped with Parmesan and laced with Potatoes and vegetables. 21 Sauce Béarnaise. Garlic Roasted Potatoes and fresh Vegetables. 26

Seafood Wellington

Chef Axel’s original recipes of sautéed Lobster, Scampi, tender Scallops, large Coldwater Bay Shrimp and Mushrooms, flamed in Cognac and blended with a light Lobster sauce and filled in a Puff Pastry Shell. Served with a Bouquet of fresh steamed vegetables. 28

Friday Feb. 12 Saturday Feb. 13 Sunday Feb. 14 Reservations taken for this special weekend.

Open 4:00 pm

Rack of Lamb Herb crusted individual Rack of Lamb, marinated in Garlic, Olive Oil; fresh Herbs served with Garlic roasted Potatoes and a Bouquet of fresh Vegetables. 22

Also featuring Salmon, Chicken Bistro, Tournedos, and other selections.

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C4 Sunday, February 7, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

Strawberry Continued from C1 A couple of weeks ago, I joined the Snowballers and the Grant County Sheriff’s Department on a day’s excursion into Malheur National Forest. Although I hadn’t planned my visit to coincide with the event, the Oregon State Snowmobile Association, known as OSSA, was holding its annual convention in John Day at the same time that I was there, so I was fortunate to find companions who knew the forest trails and roads.

From John Day, my group drove south on U.S. Highway 395 for 10 miles, then turned east up Canyon Creek on paved Forest Road 15 for another eight miles to the Crazy Creek Sno-park. There, my companions unloaded the “sleds” from the beds of their trucks and we headed off into the woodland.

Beware of strange bumps I had been on a snowmachine only two or three times previously, and not at all in recent years. Thus I was feeling anything but confident when I straddled the Arctic Cat to which I’d been assigned for the day. I needn’t have worried: Roger Lang, a longtime snowmobiler from Dayville, took me under his wing and made sure I rode safely and securely. That meant donning proper boots, gloves and a helmet with a faceguard to protect me from the elements.

“Just be sure you don’t go over any strange bumps,” Lang dryly cautioned me. “It could be a rock or a tree … or maybe a hibernating bear.”

I erred only once in my driving. Following Lang down a forest trail, I failed to slow sufficiently as we approached a sharp right-hand turn, and I veered into a bank of untracked snow at the edge of a steep drop. Uncertain how my machine would respond if I turned hard and accelerated again, I waited for Lang to backtrack and give me a hand. It was a piece of cake for the veteran.

Otherwise, my day’s excursion was smooth sailing. Over the course of several hours, I covered about 50 miles of backcountry.

Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer led a posse of 17 snowmobilers — I was number 17 — through gently falling snow, along forest roads and trails on the southern slope of Strawberry Mountain.

As we crossed Bear Creek and climbed to the High Lake Rim, we glimpsed elk and wild turkeys through groves of larch and ponderosa pine.

Federal law directs that snowmobiles must not cross into a wilderness area. Palmer and his team are steadfast in their support of that law. Forest Road 1640 is enclosed within a narrow non-wilderness corridor that allows vehicles to approach the viewpoint.

The sheriff led our group of outdoors lovers up the hill to the edge of the rim.

He motioned for me to join him on the cliff top. The January snow clung hard to the boughs of spruce trees, almost concealing a rustic sign that declared the boundary of the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness.

“When the weather is clear,” Palmer said, a sweep of his arm acknowledging the light cloud cover, “the view across this valley is truly remarkable. High Lake and Slide Lake are just down there to the left. But look through the mist, and you can see the scars of major forest fires. The last one was in 2002, but we had several others in the years before that.”

We tracked back downhill to the Lake Creek Lodge, centerpiece of a youth camp that also hosts weddings, family reunions and other gatherings. Normally open May to October, the rustic main lodge had thrown its doors open on this January week to accommodate the large number of snowmobilers in town. Volunteers served bowls of chili and chocolate-chip cookies. This was an exception to the winter rule, however; snowmobilers normally should pack their own food.

With lunch over, Lang stayed in the upper Logan Valley to play daredevil on his sled, trusting that I now could manage myself on my own machine. I followed the sheriff back to the Crazy Creek Snopark where we had left our trucks.

Along paved Forest Service roads, now covered with snow, it was easy to exceed the 35 miles-perhour speed limit posted for summer drivers. As deputies from the Grant, Umatilla and Klamath county sheriff’s departments were on my tail, I was careful not to let my enthusiasm get too far out of hand.

Snowmobile convention More than 250 visitors from all corners of the state descended upon the Grant County Fairgrounds for the week-long con-

Photos by John Gottberg Anderson / For The Bulletin

ABOVE: Congressman Greg Walden gets direction from John Bastian, president of the Grant County Snowballers, before heading out on a snowmobile excursion into Malheur National Forest.

LEFT: Dozens of snowmobiles surround the lodge at Lake Creek Youth Camp in the heart of Malheur National Forest during the Oregon State Snowmobile Association convention in January.

Snowmobiling in the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness EXPENSES • Gas, round-trip, 350 miles @ $2.70/gallon $37.08 • Dinner, The Outpost $28.49 • Lodging (two nights), Dreamers Lodge $117.72 • Lunch, Lake Creek Lodge $6 • Dinner, Grubsteak Mining Co. $18 • Breakfast, Squeeze In $11.45 • Lunch, Russell’s Custom Meats $12 TOTAL $230.74* *Does not include snowmobile rental in Central Oregon

Breakfast, 907 E. Main St., John Day; 541-575-5612, www.up thelazyriver.net. Rates from $95.

• Grant County Chamber of Commerce, 301 W. Main St., John Day; 541-575-0447, 800-7695664, www.gcoregonlive.com.

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• America’s Best Value Inn, 390 W. Main St., John Day; 541-575-1462, 800-315-2378, www.americasbestvalueinn.com.

Rates from $70.

• Best Western John Day Inn, 315 W. Main St., John Day; 541-575-1700, 800-528-1234, www.bestwestern. com. Rates from $94.99.

• Dreamers Lodge, 144 N. Canyon Road, John Day; 541-575-0526, 800-654-2849, www.dreamerslodge.com.

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• Historic Hotel Prairie, 112 Front St., Prairie City; 541-820-4800, www.prairiecityoregon.com.

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• Grant County Snowballers, P.O. Box 337, John Day, OR 97845; 541-575-3640, www.grantcountysnowballers.com.

• Malheur National Forest, P.O. Box 909, John Day, OR 97845; 541-5753000, www.fs.fed.us/r6/malheur.

• Oregon State Snowmobile Association, P.O. Box 435, La Pine, OR 97739; 888-567-7669, www.oregonsnow.org.

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vention of the OSSA. Among them was John Vogel, the president of the state organization, who traveled to John Day from his home in Hood River.

“Ours is a family sport, one that different generations can enjoy together,” Vogel said. “You can see country that you can’t see any other way … and it’s a lot different in winter than it is in summer.

You certainly can’t snowshoe or cross-country ski as far as we can travel in a single day.”

“It’s a social sport,” added Mark Schumacher of Stayton, a past state president, “and it’s the most organized outdoor recreational sport in the United States. You build a lot of friendships over the years. Everybody takes care of everybody else out there.”

The convention featured more than daily guided rides and nightly socializing. There were also workshops, seminars and information sessions, the most important of which focused on safety.

“First of all, you should never ride by yourself,” Sheriff Palmer told me in a private conversation.

“Let someone know where you’re going.

“Wear a helmet and proper clothing. If you get cold, you’re in trouble. The wind chill is much greater when you’re riding fast, as we do on our machines.

“And know the area where you’re riding. If you don’t know what’s on the other side of the hill, you could wind up in big trouble.

A couple of years ago, our search and rescue crew had to evacuate a guy who had sped right over a cliff and suffered a compound fracture of his arm. Hours passed before we could get to him.”

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Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer monitors activity in his jurisdiction from 8,000 feet elevation on the High Lake Rim. “When the weather is clear,” he said, “the view across this valley is truly remarkable.” In the winter, Palmer and his small search and rescue team use snowmobiles to reach more remote areas of the large but sparsely populated county.

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Whither the wilderness?

On Saturday morning of the OSSA convention, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, flew into John Day to address the attendees. Preaching to the choir, as it were, the legislator spoke in support of snowmobilers’ positions on wilderness protection: “If we’re going to close the roads, why not keep them open for mountain bikers in summer and snowmobilers in winter? And take the opportunity to create some new routes?”

An avid skier and backpacker himself, Walden is a proponent of outdoor recreation of all kinds.

But he said the original 1964 Wilderness Act, specifying that lands so protected be “untrammeled by man,” has been misinterpreted since its passage.

“It was never (the sponsors’) intent to go this far,” Walden said, responding to a question about a bill that would expand designated wilderness in the Crater Lake area. The original act, he pointed out, preserved 9 million acres; since that time, an additional 100 million acres have been set aside, and Congress has been presented another 19 bills to expand wilderness in 12 states.

And then, to show his support, the congressman went snowmobiling himself.

As soon as Walden and his aide had donned their winter clothing, Snowballers president Bastian packed them into his truck and took them to the Crazy Creek Snopark. There, a small group of experienced riders led the pair into the woodland that I had enjoyed a day earlier.

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THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 7, 2010 C5 An abandoned homestead sits beside the John Day River outside Dayville on U.S. Highway 26 west of John Day. The river rises in the Blue and Strawberry mountains and runs 281 miles to the Columbia River, making it one of the longest undammed streams in the contiguous United States.

Photos by John Gottberg Anderson For The Bulletin

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Main Street in John Day is lined for several blocks with two-story, false-fronted, Western-style buildings, not unlike Sisters.

Although the town is home to fewer than 2,000 people, it is the largest community for 80 miles in any direction.

In John Day On the surface, the town of John Day might appear to be an unlikely hub for winter sports.

Fewer than 2,000 people live there, but that’s enough to make it the largest community within a drive of nearly two hours in any direction.

John Day is named for the river that flows westward through the community. The John Day River rises in the Blue and Strawberry mountains and runs 281 miles to the Columbia, making it one of the longest undammed streams in the contiguous United States. According to publications of the Grant County Chamber of Commerce, it was named for an obscure pioneer trapper who never set foot within 100 miles of the town that bears his name.

John Day’s main street, U.S. Highway 26, is lined for about three blocks with two-story, false-fronted, Western-style buildings. Its principal tourist attraction is the Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site, a museum of Chinese culture open only during the summer months.

But there are ample places to stay and eat, even in winter. I find the Dreamers Lodge, a half-block off the highway, to be the best value, although the Historic Hotel Prairie, 15 miles east in tiny Prairie City, has far more character. And you can get a good steak for a reasonable price at several local restaurants, including the Grubsteak and the Outpost, both on the main street, and the Snaffle Bit, three-fourths of a mile

Books Continued from C1 Beginning at 2 p.m., love will be in the air when members of two Bend poetry groups — the coed Skyhooks and the allmale High Desert Poetry Cell — take turns offering readings of “famous and infamous poets’ words on love, reading both from their own work and across centuries and cultures to explore the wit and wonder of falling in — and out — of love,” according to a news release for the event.

Says Bend poet Marion Davidson, “If you think about poetry and you think about Valentine’s, it’s a perfect match.”

Each reader will read two poems, at least one of them by a known poet, such as W.H. Auden and Stanley Kunitz.

“And,” she adds, the event “is also trying to be a little less stuffy about the business of poetry.”

The public is invited to get in on the fun.

“We’re inviting people to come up from the audience and to spew their love,” she says.

“It’s not all about love in the ‘plus’ sense; it could be about love in the ‘dumped’ sense.”

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There is one big catch facing winter-recreation lovers who might consider a snowmobiling weekend in the John Day area: You can’t rent a snowmachine in Grant County. The vehicles are for sale at dealers there, but Bastian said a new machine may cost between $6,000 and $13,000.

A good used snowmobile, he added, might be purchased for between $1,000 and $2,500.

In Central Oregon, several companies have snowmobiles available for weekend rental. GK Motorsports, in Bend, offers new Yamaha sleds at $210 per day, including a trailer, a sno-park pass and a full tank of fuel. La Pine-

based Mountain Performance Rentals offers sled-trailer-helmet packages for $200 to $275 per day, depending on the size of machine; a full weekend with two machines can be arranged for as little as $800. Machines are also available at a similar price from Mountain Madness Rentals in Sunriver.

If you’re unfamiliar with the Strawberry Mountain area of Malheur National Forest, the Grant County Snowballers will bend over backwards to provide assistance. The club has built a new warming hut for snowmobilers at the Huddleston Sno-park, off County Road 62 south of Prairie City, and members generally

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Paul Garrett, left, and Rachel Kamna

Kamna — Garrett Rachel Kamna and Paul Garrett were married Sept. 5 at Elk Cove Vineyards near Forest Grove. A reception and dinner followed.

The bride is the daughter of John and Gail Kamna, of Bend.

She is a 2003 graduate of Bend High School and a 2007 graduate of Willamette University, where she studied international studies.

She works as a service representative in the Social Security office in Portland.

The groom is the son of Valerie

Garrett, of Montrose, Calif., and Phil Garrett, of Stevenson Ranch, Calif. He is a 2001 graduate of Flint Ridge Preparatory High School, in LaCaùada, Calif., and a 2006 graduate of Willamette University, where he studied politics. He received a master’s in business administration in 2008 from Willamette University. He is a public utilities specialist in contracts for Bonneville Power Administration in Portland.

The couple honeymooned in Greece and the Greek Islands.

They will settle in southwest Portland.

Sarah Werner, of Redmond, and Scott Acarregui, of Bend, plan to marry June 26 in Bend.

The future bride is the daughter of George and Teri Werner, of Redmond. She is a 2007 graduate of Central Christian School in Redmond and attends Western Oregon University, where she studies psychology.

The future groom is the son of Chris and Betsy Acarregui and Mick and Nanette Bittler, all of Bend. He is a 2006 graduate of Redmond High School and attends Western Oregon University, where he studies elementary and middle

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The bride is the daughter of Kristi and Spanky McFarland, of Tempe, Ariz. She is a 1999 graduate of McClintock High School in Tempe and a 2003 graduate of Arizona State University, where she studied recreation management. In 2008, she received a master’s degree in higher and postsecondary education from Arizona State University, where she works as an academic adviser.

The groom is the son of Howard and Nancy Friedman, of Bend. He is a 2001 graduate of Mountain View High School and a 2005 graduate of Oregon State University, where he studied me-

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Leah McFarland, left, and Dustin Friedman chanical engineering. He works as an equipment development engineer for Intel in Chandler, Ariz.

The couple honeymooned in Kauai, Hawaii.

They will settle in Gilbert, Ariz.

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They have three children, Daniel, Jake and Travis, all of Bend.

Mr. Thompson works as a technical laboratory assistant at St. Charles Bend. Mrs. Thompson works as a billing clerk for St. Charles Bend.

They have lived in Central Oregon for 17 years.

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Holman said she sometimes gets a request from a couple for a bride and groom topper made from gum paste to look like the actual bridal couple. “They get funky, they really do. There are a lot of bolder colors. They like to have their personality in there, so you can see something of them in it,� she said.

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Aaron and Sandra Vela, a boy, Aaron Michael Vela, 6 pounds, 7 ounces, Jan. 29.

This is the time of year when couples who got engaged over the holidays (or who may be getting engaged on Valentine’s Day) will start to think about all of the details that make a wedding a wedding.

Flowers, cake, dresses, cake, honeymoon, cake ...

Wedding cakes have come a long way since those 1970s and ’80s creations of plastic staircases and fountains spewing water dyed to match the bridesmaids’ dresses. The current design trend is for high-end simplicity.

Today’s wedding cake is likely to be a stack of three to five layers, covered in smooth fondant with simple embellishments of ribbons, dots or scroll work. If there are flowers, they are likely to be gum paste creations that have the look of sculpted porcelain, sitting on the top of the cake where the bride and groom used to be.

Aside from being the featured dessert at most receptions, the cake is a major player when it comes to setting the tone and style of a wedding.

Rick Reeves, whose family has been baking wedding cakes in Akron, Ohio, said he already knows what most couples will want — traditional stacked layers. “That’s the fashion right now. Stacked, with ribbon or simple scroll work, which is very, very popular,� he said.

Because fondant and gum paste, which is used to sculpt flowers or other decorations, are the preferred media on the popular television shows “Ace of Cakes� and “Cake Boss,� most couples already have strong ideas of what they want their cakes to look like. “That’s what everybody is into — fondant cakes with gum paste flowers or anything specialty, dimensional, topsy-turvy,� said LaVada Holman, who teaches cake

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The bride is the daughter of Kim and Kathy Russell, of La Pine. She is a 2007 graduate of La Pine High School and a 2010 graduate of Eastern Wyoming College, where she studied veterinary technology. She works as a veterinary assistant.

The groom is the son of Thomas and Deanna Burbach, of Cuba City, Wis. He is a 2007 graduate of Benton High School in Benton, Wis. He works as a ranch hand.

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John and Bonnie (Anderson) Thompson, of Bend, will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary this month.

The couple were married Feb. 14, 1985, in Garden Grove, Calif., by the late Erling H. Wold.

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VOLUNTEER SEARCH EDITOR’S NOTE: The organizations listed below are seeking volunteers for a variety of tasks. For additional information on the types of help they need, see a more detailed listing at www.bendbulletin.com/volunteer.

106.7 KPOV, BEND’S COMMUNITY RADIO STATION: 541-322-0863 or info@kpov.org.

AARP TAX-AIDE: Doug King, 541-388-1772.

ADULT BASIC EDUCATION LITERACY PROGRAM: 541-318-3788.

ALYCE HATCH CENTER: Andy Kizans, 541-383-1980.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION: Carol Norton or Angie Kooistra, 541-548-7074.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: Nicole Fowler, 877-221-3072 or 541-434-3114.

AMERICAN RED CROSS: 541-749-4111.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Philip Randall, 541-388-1793.

ART COMMITTEE OF THE REDMOND FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: Jenny Pedersen, 541-312-1064.

ARTS CENTRAL STATION: 541-617-1317.

ASPEN RIDGE ALZHEIMER’S ASSISTED LIVING AND RETIREMENT COMMUNITY: 541-385-8500, Tuesday through Saturday.

ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND: 541-389-2075.

BEND AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: 541-385-5387.

BEND LIBRARY FRIENDS: Clairece, 541-388-5632, or Joyce, 541-388-1334.

BEND PARK & RECREATION DISTRICT: Volunteer coordinator, 541-389-7275.

BEND’S COMMUNITY CENTER: Taffy, 541-312-2069.

BEND SENIOR CENTER: 541-388-1133.

BEND SPAY & NEUTER PROJECT: 541-617-1010.

BEND SPECIAL-EDUCATION PROGRAM: 541-383-6051.

BETHLEHEM INN: 541-322-8768.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OREGON: 541-312-6047 (Bend), 541-923-2676 (Redmond), 541-447-3851, ext. 333 (Prineville) or 541-475-2292, ext. 351 (Madras).

BLISSFUL ACRES RESCUE RESERVE (BARR): 541-388-0922.

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: Jared Vanderhoff, 541-382-4647.

CAMP FIRE U.S.A. CENTRAL OREGON : 541-382-4682 or www.campfireusaco.org.

CASCADES THEATRICAL COMPANY: 541-389-0803.

CASCADE VIEW NURSING AND ALZHEIMER’S CARE CENTER: 541-382-7161.

CAT RESCUE, ADOPTION & FOSTER TEAM (CRAFT): 541-389-8420 or www.craftcats.org.

CENTRAL OREGON AUDUBON SOCIETY: 541-317-3086.

CENTRAL OREGON COUNCIL ON AGING (COCOA): 541-475-6494.

CENTRAL OREGON COUNCIL ON AGING (COCOA) — BEND: 541-382-3008.

CENTRAL OREGON COUNCIL ON AGING (COCOA) — LA PINE: 541-536-3207.

CENTRAL OREGON COUNCIL ON AGING (COCOA) — MADRAS: 541-475-6494.

CENTRAL OREGON COUNCIL ON AGING (COCOA) — REDMOND: 541-548-6325.

CENTRAL OREGON RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: 541-617-5878.

CHILDREN’S MUSIC THEATER GROUP: 541-385-6718.

CHILDREN’S VISION FOUNDATION: Julie Bibler, 541-330-3907.

CHIMPS, INC.: 541-385-3372 or www.chimps-inc.org.

THE CITIZEN REVIEW BOARD (CRB): 800-530-8999 or crb.volunteer .resources@ojd.state.or.us.

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE (CASA): 541-389-1618 or www.casaofcentraloregon.org.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES/VOLUNTEER SERVICES: Lin Gardner, 541-693-8988.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES/VOLUNTEER SERVICES CROOK COUNTY: Valerie Dean, 541-447-3851, ext. 427.

DESCHUTES LAND TRUST: 541-330-0017 or www.deschuteslandtrust.org.

DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Tuesday Johnson, 541-322-7425 or Tuesday_ Johnson@co.deschutes.or.us.

DESCHUTES COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE — CENTRAL OREGON PARTNERSHIPS FOR YOUTH: 541-388-6651, COPY@deschutes.org or www.deschutes.org/copy.

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ALLIANCE: David Visiko, 541-322-7481.

DESCHUTES COUNTY VICTIMS’ ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: Anna, 541-388-6525.

DES CHUTES HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 541-389-1813, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday.

DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST: Jean Nelson-Dean, 541-383-5576.

DESCHUTES PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM: 541-312-1032.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES (DHS): 541-447-3851, ext. 427.

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS (DAV): Nick Norton, 541-382-4515.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: Nikki or Karyn, 541-385-6908.

FAMILY EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: Kindra Bond, 541-815-0539.

FAMILY KITCHEN: Ron Lattin, 541-383-3331.

FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: 541-389-5468.

FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM: 800-541-5116.

FRIENDS WITH FLOWERS: 541-317-9808.

GIRL SCOUTS: 541-389-8146.

GIRLS ON THE RUN OF DESCHUTES COUNTY: 541-788-8567 or www.deschutescountygotr.org.

GRANDMA’S HOUSE: 541-383-3515.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY REDMOND: Jim, 541-548-1406.

HABITAT RESTORE: Di Crocker, 541-312-6709.

HEALING REINS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: Sarah Smith, 541-382-9410.

HEALTHY BEGINNINGS: 541-383-6357 or www.myhb.org.

HIGH DESERT CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: 541-318-4283 or hdcc@hdccbend.org.

HIGH DESERT INTER-CULTURAL FESTIVAL: Barb, 541-447-0732 or bonitodia@msn.com.

HIGH DESERT MUSEUM: 541-382-4754.

HIGH DESERT SPECIAL OLYMPICS: 541-749-6517.

HIGH DESERT TEENS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: 541-382-4757 or www.highdesertmuseum.org.

HUMAN DIGNITY COALITION: 541-385-3320.

HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: Wendy, 541-382-3537.

HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON THRIFT STORE: Liz, 541-388-3448.

HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OCHOCOS: 541-447-7178.

HUMANE SOCIETY OF REDMOND: Ashley McClure, 541-923-0882.

HUNGER PREVENTION COALITION: Marie, 541-385-9227.

IEP PARTNERS: Carmelle Campbell at the Oregon Parent Training and Information Center, 888-505-2673.

INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: 541-385-9460.

JEFFERSON COUNTY CRIME VICTIMS’ ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: Tina Farrester, 541-475-4452, ext. 4108.

JEFFERSON COUNTY VOLUNTEER SERVICES: Therese Helton, 541-475-6131, ext. 208.

JUNIPER GROUP SIERRA CLUB: 541-389-9115.

JUNIPER SWIM & FITNESS CENTER: 541-389-7665.

KIDS CENTER: 541-383-5958.

LA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN: 541-536-1312.

LA PINE PUBLIC LIBRARY: Cindylu, 541-317-1097.

LA PINE RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: Volunteer Coordinator, 541-536-2935.

LA PINE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER: Cathy, 541-536-3207.

LA PINE YOUTH DIVERSION SERVICES: Mary, 541-536-5002.

LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: Brad, 541-382-4366 or volunteer@latca.org.

LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM: Molly Twarog, 800-522-2602.

MEALS ON WHEELS: Dee Reed, 541-382-3008.

MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: 541-322-6820.

THE NATURE OF WORDS: 541-3304381 or www.thenatureofwords.org.

NEAT REPEAT THRIFT SHOP: Peg, 541-447-6429.

NEIGHBORIMPACT: 541-548-2380, ext. 115, or Elaines@neighborimpact.org.

NEWBERRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: 541-593-5005.

NEWBERRY HOSPICE: 541-536-7399.

OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION THRIFT STORE OF BEND: 541-389-0129.

OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION THRIFT STORE OF REDMOND: 541-548-5288.

OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: Kendall Cook, 541-848-9390 or www.oregonadaptivesports.org.

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION SERVICE: 541-548-6088, 541-447-6228 or 541-475-3808.

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY MASTER GARDENER VOLUNTEER PROGRAM: 541-548-6088 or http://extension .oregonstate.edu/deschutes.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010: This year, you must not lose your focus. You are capable of creating new realities and making what you want occur. However, others will distract you. Your finances could be subject to wild swings up and down. If you manage your money well, you will come out on top. If you are single, you can meet Mr. or Ms. Right. However, don’t jump into anything. If you are attached, work on making a mutual goal a reality.

SAGITTARIUS points the way.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH An easy approach works, and understanding could redefine a relationship. Use your high energy to bring other people together. Whether planning a day trip or thinking about a visit or vacation, it makes no difference.

Tonight: Read between the lines.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH A key partner has much to do with your plans. A must appearance becomes much more than you intended. Try to redefine what is happening around you in new terms.

Sometimes you need to project less and listen more. Tonight: Go with another’s suggestion.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Others run through your life, perhaps adding an element of confusion, whether you like it or not. You could be energetic, so much more so than

those around you. Do be careful driving or handling machinery.

You could be distracted.

Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Taking on a project or completing some extra work could fit into your plans better than you realize. Your sense of humor will take you in a new direction if you relax a little more. Be careful to tame runaway spending.

Tonight: Think “tomorrow.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Your imagination seems to be a great source of ideas, especially when combined with friends, partners and/or a child.

Those who are ready to let down their hair will find just the right situation. A child plays a significant role in plans. Tonight: Hang out.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Happiness surrounds the home. You might be happiest playing it easy or taking a lazy day.

Others are only too happy to pitch in. You cannot sit on your anger any longer. Learn new techniques to express your dissatisfaction.

Tonight: Bring family together.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Return calls and be more available. You often hide behind others. You could see life from a different perspective if you open up talks. You have a tendency to overdo it. A friend could be most contentious. Avoid a hassle with this person. Tonight: Answer calls and e-mails.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Clearly you have a very different pattern from many people.

You also might be in the mood to go overboard and indulge a close loved one and/or yourself. The real question is, Why not? A parent or older friend could be itching for a fight. Tonight: Your treat.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Knowing when you have had enough could make all the difference. Realize what is happening within a key bond.

You might want to indulge a close family member, which might not involve finances but feelings. Tonight: Order in.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Recognize your limits right now. With some space and some R and R, you could be inclined to approach a situation far differently. Take your time making a decision. Certainly today is the time to mull over alternatives. Tonight: Do your thing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Follow the group or put yourself in a situation where you can socialize to the max.

You make new friends with ease.

Don’t feel as if you need to show off or pretend to be someone or something that you are not.

Tonight: Where the action is.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Bring others together.

Understandably, you cannot predict the end results of this happening and might even surprise yourself. An event or response forces you to look at your perspective. You could experience a real mind-opener. Tonight: Don’t count on an early night. © 2009 by King Features Syndicate

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States line up to play part of California

By Michael Cieply New York Times News Service

Anthony Devlin / The Associated Press

Auctioneer Henry Wyndam sells the sculpture “Walking Man I” by Alberto Giacometti at Sotheby’s in London last week. The life-size bronze sculpture sold $104.3 million, which Sotheby’s says is a record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction.

Meltdown no more?

Records fall as sales of fine art surge

By Jill Lawless The Associated Press

LONDON — It only took eight minutes for a wiry sculpture of a striding man to make history.

After a brief but intense bidding war involving at least 10 prospective buyers, Alberto Giacometti’s “Walking Man I” sold at Sotheby’s in London for just over $104.3 million, by a hair the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction.

“We were euphoric when the hammer came down,” Melanie Clore, co-chair of Sotheby’s impressionist and modern department, said last week.

With good reason. More than a year after the global financial meltdown sent values plummeting, art masterpieces are again the commodity of choice for the world’s superrich, and jaw-dropping prices are back.

At current exchange rates, the sale price for “Walking Man” — which includes buyer’s premium — beats the previous auction record of $104.17 million paid in New York in 2004 for Pablo Picasso’s “Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice).”

What a difference a year makes At the same Sotheby’s sale on Wednesday, Gustav Klimt’s landscape “Church in Cassone” sold for $42.4 million, almost double the expected price. Just over half the lots went for more than their highest pre-sale estimate.

On Monday, rival auction house Christie’s made a solid $121 million at its impressionist and modern sale, with Picasso’s “Tete de Femme (Jacqueline)” selling for $12.7 million, double expectations.

Christie’s said the results signaled “a buoyant market,” with previously reluctant sellers bringing masterpieces out of the woodwork and wealthy collectors eager to snap them up.

It all looked very different a

year ago, when the hedge fund managers and private equity millionaires who had fueled the boom were reeling from the nearcollapse of the global banking system.

On Sept. 25, 2008, Sotheby’s started a two-day auction of works by Britart star Damien Hirst that would generate almost $200 million and come to be seen as the end of an era. The same day, Lehman Brothers bank collapsed and the global economy tipped into crisis. The major auctions of contemporary art later that year generated at least a third less money than predicted and many works went unsold.

Auction houses slashed prices as collectors held back from putting works up for sale.

Signs of a turnaround?

Recently, there have been signs of a turnaround. Last November in New York, Sotheby’s sold Andy Warhol’s silk-screen painting “200 One Dollar Bills” for almost $44 million, quadruple the presale estimate. Overall, prices there and at Christie’s were stronger than a year earlier.

“I think that confidence will return even more with these big prices,” said Georgina Adam, editor at large of The Art Newspaper.

Experts caution that the recent results don’t signal a return to the boom of the last decade, when even mediocre works sold for millions.

“I think it would be premature, and possibly stupid, to think that the art market is just going to race along,” said Judd Tully, editor at large of Art and Auction magazine. “I think it does indicate that there are at least a handful of ultra-rich individuals who want these world-class trophies.”

Sotheby’s attributed Giacometti’s high price to its rarity — the 1961 work is the only cast of the walking man figure created during the Swiss artist’s lifetime that has ever come to auction.

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LOS ANGELES — Shooting day for night is one thing.

Shreveport, La., for Santa Monica is quite another.

In a new indignity for Hollywood’s struggling film production business, Los Angeles and its environs are about to be ravaged by aliens in “Battle: Los Angeles.” It stars Aaron Eckhart, is set for release by Sony Pictures in 2011 — and was shot in Louisiana.

The cause is no secret: Taxpayer-supported subsidies have steadily drawn film work from Los Angeles to states like Louisiana, Michigan and New Mexico.

Those three give filmmakers public support more generous than a complicated tax break California offered to producers last year, in a belated attempt to fight back.

New York City, of course, has had to get used to seeing itself depicted on screen in scenes

“You’re never going to know we didn’t shoot the movie in Los Angeles.”

— Neal Moritz, a producer of “Battle: Los Angeles,” which filmed in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La.

shot in a dozen cities, like Toronto and Vancouver and, yes, Los Angeles.

But until now, moviegoers could almost always be confident that if Los Angeles appeared on screen, whether shattered by earthquakes (“Earthquake”), buried under lava (“Volcano”) or turned into a giant penal colony (“Escape From L.A.”), they were seeing the real thing.

So it’s a harder pill for Los Angeles, the home of American filmmaking, to swallow — threatening to put it in a class with other cities whose identities were deeply associated with a single industry.

“We’ve done great, given what

we have to work with,” said Amy Lemisch, the director of the California Film Commission.

Lemisch referred to tax incentives that, by California’s count, helped keep 60 film and television projects in the state, where they are expected to generate $710 million in spending during the current fiscal year.

The bad news: Movie location shoots around Los Angeles fell to 4,976 days last year, down 29.9 percent from 2008 and off 64.4 percent from a peak of 13,980 days in 1996, according to FilmL.A., which monitors film permits in the area.

Producers have routinely had stories based in California re-

written to occur in states with high subsidies, Lemisch said.

Some subsidy states are now making movies and television shows that purport to take place in California. The Starz television series “Crash,” shot in New Mexico, is one.

Some of “Battle: Los Angeles” is set in Santa Monica, a beachfront city that Shreveport stood in for, with the help of imported palm trees that were spraypainted bright green, according to a report in The Shreveport Times.

“You’re never going to know we didn’t shoot the movie in Los Angeles,” said Neal Moritz, a producer of “Battle: Los Angeles,” which filmed late last year in Baton Rouge and Shreveport.

The film has been reported to cost about $70 million, making it one of the bigger productions to shoot in Louisiana. Taxpayers expected to reimburse 30 percent of the production’s spending in the state.

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NORDIC SKIING Juniors, masters compete at Bachelor MOUNT BACHELOR — Junior skiers competed alongside masters crosscountry racers in the two-day Pacific Northwest Ski Association J3 Championships Sunnyside Qualifier on Saturday.

Emily Hyde, of Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation, and Cole Christman, of Wenatchee Valley Nordic Ski Education Foundation, won their gender divisions in the J3 (ages 12-13) 3-kilometer skate race.

In the boys J2 (ages 14-15) 5K race, Bend Nordic Team’s Nick St. Clair, Ryan St. Clair and Kelly Smallwood took the top three spots respectively.

Jacqueline O’Keefe, of Methow Valley Nordic Team, won the girls J2 5K. Teammate Kelsey Dickinson won the girls J1/OJ (ages 16-19) division.

Bend Nordic Team skiers dominated the field in the J1/OJ boys 10K race: Pat Madden was first and Reitler Hodgert was runner-up.

Warren McDermott (club affiliation not available) won the men’s 10K skate race, with BNT’s Dakota Blackhorse-von Jess coming in second.

More than 150 skiers took part in Saturday’s races.

Competition begins at 9 a.m. today on the nordic trails at Mount Bachelor. For complete results, see Scoreboard on Page D2.

— Bulletin staff report

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NFL’s best teams to Life is just ‘Super’ for Saints scout settle it on the field with ties to Bend The Colts and the Saints, the NFL’s top squads in the regular season, avoided letdowns to reach today’s game

Bill Bigelow

The Super Bowl

By Barry Wilner The Associated Press

MIAMI — Hoosiers and Who Dats.

And, oh yes, the two best teams in the NFL also happen to be on hand for today’s Super Bowl.

Peyton Manning and his AFC champion Indianapolis Colts are 5-point favorites to spoil the ending of the New Orleans football renaissance for Drew Brees and the Saints. The odd twist to this story is that the boy who grew up in the Big Easy rooting for his dad as he quarterbacked the awful Saints may end up breaking its heart.

“You hear the term Hoosier Hospitality, and I really didn’t know what that meant, coming from New Orleans, where you hear Southern Hospitality,” says Manning, the league’s only four-time MVP who guided the Colts to the NFL title three years ago, in the same stadium. “I really feel it is kind of the same thing. It is good people.

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Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans Saints; Today, 3:25 p.m.; TV: CBS.

Inside • A breakdown of the big game, Page D7

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hen we last checked in with Ryan Powell, the former Bend resident was in Green Bay, Wis., on a scouting assignment for the National Football League’s New Orleans Saints. It was early September 2005, just days after Hurricane Katrina had blitzed the Gulf Coast, and Powell was wondering just what — if anything — might be left of the New Orleans-area apartment he called home.

His scouting duties kept him on the road for the next several weeks, and the reports he was hearing out of Louisiana were grim.

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OSU sweeps season series with UO

Bend skier wins race in Idaho SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Bend’s Evelyn Dong won the women’s division of the Boulder Mountain Tour 32kilometer nordic ski race starting at Senate Meadows Galena Lodge on Saturday morning. Dong, who races for the Bend-based elite ski club XC Oregon, clocked in at 1:24:23.2. Trailing right behind Dong was runner-up Zoe Roy, of Bend, finishing in a time of 1:25:00.2. Bend’s Taylor Leach and Sarah Max, both of XC Oregon, took seventh and eighth respectively.

In the men’s division, XC Oregon’s Marshall Greene, of Bend, grabbed a spot on the podium with a third-place finish (1:13:54.4). Teammate Brayton Osgood came in sixth place with a time of 1:14:25.5.

A number of other Central Oregon skiers participated in the Idaho race. For complete local results from the Boulder Mountain Tour, see Tuesday’s Community Sports Scoreboard.

— Bulletin staff report

AUTO RACING Patrick finishes 6th in stock car debut DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Bobby Gerhart held yet another trophy. Danica Patrick held her own.

Gerhart’s record sixth ARCA victory at Daytona International Speedway was overshadowed by the successful stock car debut of the IndyCar star, who rallied from a midrace spinout to finish sixth Saturday in the crashfilled race.

“It was a lot of fun,” Patrick said. “I bumped from the side.

I bumped from the front. I got bumped from the back.

I learned a lot, and I had so much fun in a race car today.

So I can’t wait to do it again.”

— The Associated Press

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Ryan Powell, who played football at Mountain View, now works for the New Orleans Saints.

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Mountain View senior Jesse Zapata (24) tries to get around the defense of Pendleton senior Bryan Carter (30) during the fourth quarter of Saturday afternoon’s Intermountain Conference boys basketball game in Bend. The Cougars earned a 67-49 victory.

Cougars still on top With a win against Pendleton, Mountain View remains in first place in the Intermountain Conference standings PREP BOYS BASKETBALL

Bulletin staff report Mountain View held on to first place in the Intermountain Conference boys basketball standings on Saturday, topping Pendleton 67-49 in Bend to improve to 8-1 in league play.

Isaiah Mitchell (18 points), Mark Claar

(15), Seth Brent (14) and James Reid (11) all scored in double figures for the Cougars, the second-ranked team in Class 5A

boys basketball.

“We took good looks,” said Mountain View coach Craig Reid, “and we’ve got a lot of kids who can really shoot.”

The Cougars (17-1 overall) were close to unstoppable from the three-point line, hitting 11 of their 22 shots from behind the arc. Mitchell hit four three-pointers and Claar connected on three.

Travis Jones led Pendleton with 17 points.

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CORVALLIS — Oregon State coach Craig Robinson is counting his program’s milestones one at a time.

After all, the Beavers are just two years removed from an 0-18 conference record and haven’t been to the NCAA tournament in 20 years.

Oregon State took another step forward Saturday, gaining a two-game season sweep of rival Oregon for the first time since 1993 with a 62-42 win at Gill Coliseum.

“Every single accomplishment here is meaningful because it’s been so long, and here’s yet another one,” said Robinson, in his second year with the team. “It’s nice to be able to hang your hat on some things that haven’t happened in a long time.”

Omari Johnson had 16 of his season-high 18 points in the first half for the Beavers (10-12, 4-6 Pac-10), who last month won at Oregon for the first time since ’93.

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Tuesday Boys basketball: Pleasant Hill at Sisters, 7:15 p.m.; Bend at Madras, 7 p.m.; Mountain View at The DallesWahtonka, 7 p.m.; Redmond at South Salem, 7 p.m.; Western Mennonite at Culver, 6:30 p.m.

Girls basketball: Pleasant Hill at Sisters, 5:45 p.m; Madras at Bend, 7 p.m.; The Dalles-Wahtonka at Mountain View, 7 p.m.; South Salem at Redmond, 7 p.m.; Western Mennonite at Culver, 5 p.m.

Wrestling: Crook County at Summit, 7 p.m.

3:30 a.m. — Nationwide Tour, Moonah Classic, final round, Golf.

5:30 a.m. — PGA Europe, Dubai Desert Classic, final round, Golf.

11:30 a.m. — PGA Tour, Northern Trust Open, final round, NBC.

HOCKEY 9 a.m. — NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins at Washington Capitals, NBC.

BASKETBALL 11 a.m. — Men’s college, North Carolina at Maryland, FSNW. 11:30 a.m. — NBA, Orlando Magic at Boston Celtics, ABC. 1 p.m. — Men’s college, USC at Stanford, FSNW.

TRACK & FIELD 3:25 p.m. — Reebok Boston Indoor Games, ESPN2 (same-day tape).

FOOTBALL 3:25 p.m. — NFL, Super Bowl, New Orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts, CBS.

MONDAY BASKETBALL 4 p.m. — Men’s college, Villanova at West Virginia, ESPN. 4 p.m. — Women’s college, North Carolina at Duke, ESPN2.

5 p.m. — NBA, New Orleans Hornets at Orlando Magic, TNT. 6 p.m. — Men’s college, Kansas at Texas, ESPN. 6 p.m. — Women’s college, Tennessee at Vanderbilt, ESPN2.

7:30 p.m. — NBA, San Antonio Spurs at Los Angeles Lakers, TNT.

HOCKEY 4 p.m. — NHL, New Jersey Devils at Philadelphia Flyers, VS. network.

RADIO TODAY BASKETBALL 11:30 a.m. — NBA, Orlando Magic at Boston Celtics, KICE-AM 940.

Listings are the most accurate available. The Bulletin is not responsible for late changes made by TV or radio stations

S B Football • Warren Sapp charged with domestic battery: Former NFL star Warren Sapp has been charged with domestic battery in South Florida. According to a police news release, Sapp has been charged with one count of misdemeanor domestic battery. The charge stems from an incident early Saturday morning at a South Beach hotel. An arrest affidavit was not immediately available. The former defensive tackle played for the University of Miami, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders. Sapp is currently an NFL Network analyst.

Basketball • Blazers G Roy out until after All-Star game: Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy will miss the next three games and the All-Star game with a right hamstring injury. Roy has already missed 11 of the last 12 games. He was originally hurt in a Jan. 13 game against Milwaukee, then aggravated the injury on Jan. 20 at Philadelphia. “I don’t feel like I’m at a level where I can help the guys out right now,” he said Saturday night before the Blazers played the Los Angeles Lakers.

• Thomas says he remains focused on FIU: Isiah Thomas insisted Saturday that he is “completely focused” on his current job at Florida International and would not reveal if he had any talks about becoming coach and president of the Los Angeles Clippers. Foxsports.com reported that Thomas is under consideration for those jobs by the Clippers, a story that the team denied to ESPNLosAngeles. com.

Winter sports • Kober, Prommegger win snowboard giant slaloms: Germany’s Amelie Kober and Andreas Prommegger of Austria collected parallel giant slalom victories Saturday in the final tune-up before the Vancouver Olympics. The 2006 Olympic silver medalist, Kober won her second World Cup race of the season and ninth of her career by beating Nicolien Sauerbreij of Holland in the women’s final. Austrian Marion Kreiner clinched third in Sudelfeld by holding off German Isabella Laboeck.

• Kowalczyk, Jonsson win World Cup races: Overall leader Justyna Kowalcyzk won the final cross country World Cup race before the Vancouver Olympics on Saturday. Emil Jonsson of Sweden won the men’s race on the 1988 Olympic trails west of Calgary. Kowalczyk finished second in the 10-kilometer race on Friday before racing to victory in the 1.4-kilometer classic sprint to wrap up her weekend. Ida Ngemarsdotter of Sweden finished second and Sara Renner of Canada finished third.

• Officials eliminate 2 days of halfpipe training: Winter Olympics officials will eliminate two days of halfpipe training as they continue to add snow to Cypress Mountain, site of the freestyle and snowboarding events. Athletes now will have three days of training instead of five.

Tennis • Oudin, Mattek-Sands give U.S. 2-0 lead in Fed Cup: Melanie Oudin and Bethanie Mattek-Sands won the opening singles to give the United States a 2-0 lead against France in the quarterfinals of the Fed Cup in Lievin, France.

Oudin defeated Pauline Parmentier 6-4, 6-4 after MattekSands outlasted Alize Cornet 7-6 (7), 7-5 in the first match.

Baseball • Bedard, Mariners reunite with 1-year deal: Despite shoulder surgeries and disappointment in Seattle during each of the last two seasons, free-agent left-hander Erik Bedard is coming back to the Mariners. General manager Jack Zduriencik announced Saturday the team and the oft-injured 30-year-old agreed to a one-year contract with a mutual option for 2011.

Track • Lagat sets American indoor record for 5,000 meters: Bernard Lagat shattered the American record in the indoor 5,000 meters at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games. Lagat’s time of 13 minutes, 11.50 seconds beat the previous mark by almost 7 seconds. He held off a desperate charge by Ethiopia’s Dejen Gebremeskel, who finished in 13:11.78.

— From wire reports

Wednesday Wrestling: Crook County at Madras, 7 p.m.

Thursday Wrestling: Sisters at La Pine with Pleasant Hill, 6:30 p.m.; Bend at Crook County, 7 p.m.; Madras at Mountain View, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball: Redmond at McKay, 7 p.m.; Santiam at Culver, 5 p.m.

Boys Basketball: McKay at Redmond, 7 p.m.; Santiam at Culver, 6:30 p.m.

Nordic skiing: OHSNO Hoodoo Night Race hosted by Sisters, TBA

NORDIC SUNNYSIDE PURSUIT/J3 CHAMPIONSHIPS Feb. 6 Mount Bachelor 3-kilometer skate J3 Boys — 1, Cole Christman, WVNSEF, 09:22.10.

2, Ian McCarthy, SPKNORD, 9:40.10. 3, Casey Shannon, MBSEF, 10:07.60. 4, Ryan Smallwood, BNT, 10:23.10. 5, Chase Ricker, BNT, 10:53.90. 6, Nathan Wells, LWSC, 11:07.40. 7, Tristan Simoneau, MBSEF, 11:13.60. 8, Mitchell Stevens, MBSEF, 11:46.70. 9, Nate Hochman, MBSEF, 11:47.60. 10, Leo Lukens, MBSEF, 11:51.00.

11, Timothy Wells, LWSC, 11:51.30. 12, Kurt Zontek, WVNSEF, 11:53.30. 13, Sam Biskup, BNT, 12:06.50.

14, Teddy Widmer, BNT, 12:28.70. 15, Zachary Giesler, MBSEF, 14:05.70.

J3 Girls — 1, Emily Hyde, MBSEF, 10:15.60. 2, Olivia Ekblad, MVNT, 10:36.10. 3, Ella Hall, MVNT, 10:40.70.

4, Corinn Bryant, SNSEF, 10:46.60. 5, Maya Seckinger, MVNT, 10:53.20. 6, Vivian Hawkinson, BNT, 10:59.80. 7, Elise Putnam, MVNT, 11:04.70. 8, Sami Zontek, WVNSEF, 11:09.70. 9, Grace Ford, SPKNORD, 11:23.60. 10, Piper McDonald, MBSEF, 11:40.10. 11, Katie Whitten, LVNWRTH , 11:52.30. 12, McCaleb Eifert, LWSC, 11:53.20.

13, Julia Burnham, LWSC, 12:27.20. 14, Claire Johnston, MBSEF, 12:30.40. 15, Charlotte Massey, LWSC, 13:09.50.

16, Jazmin Kopacz, MBSEF, 13:41.20.

5K skate J2 Boys — 1, Nick St Clair, BNT, 17:41.30. 2, Ryan St Clair, BNT, 17:45.10. 3, Kelly Smallwood, BNT, 18:09.30. 4, Teddy Thorson, WVNSEF, 18:19.00. 5, Tristan Cunderla, WVNSEF, 18:19.70. 6, Max Millslagle, MBSEF/Summit, 19:05.60. 7, Jake Whitten, LVNWRTH, 19:12.20. 8, John Sinclair, MVNT, 19:12.70. 9, Jake Harrop, MVNST, 19:48.30. 10, Gareth Hardwick, MVNT, 20:00.80. 11, Colin Dunlap, BNT, 20:08.90. 12, Andy Su, Summit, 20:34.30. 13, Skyler Kenna, Summit, 20:46.50.

14, Alec Wiltz, Teacup, 20:46.90. 15, Peter Schwarz, Bend High, 20:53.80. 16, Jack Widmer, BNT, 21:21.00. 17, Niko Giannioses, 21:21.5. 18, Morgan Palm, MVNT, 21:34.90.

19, Dylan Driscoll, SPKNORD, 22:16.00. 20, Ben Pratt, Teacup, 22:16.70. 21, Riley Dickinson, MVNT, 22:50.80.

22, Jordan Guzak, Bush, 23:12.50. 23, Kyle Kolish, Summit, 24:26.10. 24, Ryan Davis, Bush, 25:19.00. 25, Duncan Foster, Bush, 30:17.20.

J2 Girls — 1, Jacqueline O’Keefe, MVNT, 19:42.30.

2, Sage Abate, 21:00.2. 3, Andie Zontek, WVNSEF, 21:27.80. 4, Melissa Huber, Bend High, 23:37.40. 5, Rebecca N Wells, LVNWRTH , 24:01.90. 6, Kira Smiley, Summit, 24:05.40. 7, Aidan Washatka, Bend High, 24:06.20. 8, Tess Nelson, Summit, 24:28.20. 9, Keelin Moehl, 24:35.1. 10, Bettye Eifert, 25:14.0. 11, Kiera Degener-O’Brien, Teacup, 25:33.80. 12, Catie Himes, LWSC, 25:47.90. 13, Jillian Gerke, Bush, 31:00.20.

J1/OJ Girls — 1, Kelsey Dickinson, MVNT, 19:18.80. 2, Leanne Thorson, WVNSEF, 19:27.40. 3, Nina Ekblad, MVNT, 19:41.40. 4, Bella Smith, BNT, 19:55.10.

5, Aurora Bowers, 20:53.1. 6, Nikki Grenier, Bend High, 22:06.70. 7, Madison Jennings, MVNT, 22:25.90. 8, Kiersten Utsey, SPKNORD, 22:44.10. 9, Catherine Theobald, BEND HIGH, 23:07.40. 10, Darragh Hildreth, BNT, 23:10.10. 11, Gretha Eifert, LWSC, 23:26.70. 12, Taylor Schlichting, Teacup, 24:03.10. 13, Mimi Seeley, BEND HIGH, 25:43.00. 14, Nathalie Cushing, MVNT, 26:02.20.

10K skate Women’s — 1, Eloise Zimbelman, 35:38.10. 2, Paige Devlin, 37:11.50. 3, Kira Peterson, 38:29.00, 4, Hailey Foster, 41:19.20. 5, Stephanie Schultz, 39:30.30.

6, Leslie Hall, 32:32.3. 7, Suzanne King, 33:49.80. 8, Carla Pfund, 41:28.60. 9, Dagmar Eriksson, 43:34.10.

J1/OJ Boys — 1, Pat Madden, BNT, 28:47.20. 2, Reitler Hodgert, BNT, 29:16.60. 3, Casey Smith, MVNT, 29:31.20. 4, Brandon Roadman, BNT, 29:41.70. 5, Max Christman, WVNSEF, 29:42.20. 6, Derek Alcorn, SNSEF, 30:01.20. 7, Dan Coil, BNT, 30:48.70. 8, Mikey Widmer, BNT, 30:49.50. 9, Matty Coleman, MVNT, 31:03.80. 10, Evan Turner, MVNT, 31:19.00. 11, Arrol Bryant, SNSEF, 32:25.80. 12, Marc LeDuc, MVNT, 32:58.80. 13, Ben Corwin, 33:59.10. 14, Eliot Broze, 34:06.20. 15, Luke Brandenberger, Sandpoint, 34:56.20. 16, Jimmy Davis, Bush, 37:11.20. 17, Erik Jorgensen, Summit, 38:39.90.

18, William Coffin, Bush, 39:10.20. 19, Misha MillerHughes, Teacup, 39:47.60. 20, Willy Ross, Summit, 45:02.40. 21, Canute Haroldson, Bush, 46:20.10.

Men’s — 1, Warren McDermott, 29:18.10. 2, Dakota Blackhorse-von Jess, BNT, 29:42.50. 3, Terrence Reid, 39:31.80. 4, Malcom Dunn, 35:50.90. 5, Byron Roe, 35:03.6, Webskis, 35:03.60. 6, Milo Himes, LWSC, 41:10.30. 7, Dan Packman, 32:10.10. 8, John Lulich, 40:16.50. 9, Brad St. Clair, 32:51.20. 10, Kevin English, Webskis, 34:37.20. 11, Ron Carpenter, 37:08.50. 12, (only female) Carolyn Daubeny, MBSEF, 38:16.70. 13, Rufus Knapp, Teacup, 39:54.70. 14, Brian Dumais, KSC, 34:21.20. 15, Scott Seaton, 34:30.30. 16, Tim Burnham, LWSC, 39:14.90. 17, Robert Hardwick, MVNT, 48:34.40.

18, Brent Turner, KNGSBRGE, 32:43.10. 19, Bruce Utsey, SPKNORD, 39:14.50. 20, Oriol Sole-Costa, 46:23.90. 21, Dan Caldwell, 42:20.90. 22, Gary Reynolds, 49:24.00.

FOOTBALL NFL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE All Times PST ——— Super Bowl Today At Miami

New Orleans vs. Indianapolis, 3:25 p.m. (CBS)

Betting line Favorite COLTS

NFL (Home teams in Caps) Opening Current Sunday, Feb. 7 Super Bowl 4.5 5

Underdog Saints

College Today Texas vs. The Nation All-Star Challenge At El Paso, Texas Texas 36, Nation 17

HOCKEY NHL NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE All Times PST ——— EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA New Jersey 57 36 19 2 74 151 131 Pittsburgh 58 35 22 1 71 183 166 Philadelphia 56 28 25 3 59 164 152 N.Y. Rangers 59 26 26 7 59 152 163 N.Y. Islanders 58 23 27 8 54 146 180 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Buffalo 57 32 18 7 71 158 144 Ottawa 59 33 22 4 70 164 165 Montreal 59 28 25 6 62 154 159 Boston 56 23 22 11 57 135 146 Toronto 59 19 29 11 49 160 201 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 58 40 12 6 86 229 157 Tampa Bay 57 25 21 11 61 147 166 Atlanta 57 25 24 8 58 172 183 Florida 58 24 25 9 57 152 167 Carolina 58 21 30 7 49 155 188 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 58 38 15 5 81 185 135 Nashville 57 31 22 4 66 159 160 Detroit 58 27 21 10 64 150 156 St. Louis 58 25 24 9 59 149 161 Columbus 60 24 27 9 57 156 194 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 57 35 20 2 72 184 140 Colorado 57 32 19 6 70 167 149 Calgary 59 29 21 9 67 150 149 Minnesota 58 29 25 4 62 161 170 Edmonton 57 18 33 6 42 144 193 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 58 38 11 9 85 197 143 Los Angeles 58 36 19 3 75 178 159 Phoenix 59 35 19 5 75 157 150 Dallas 58 26 21 11 63 166 181 Anaheim 58 27 24 7 61 162 179 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Saturday’s Games Vancouver 3, Boston 2, SO Montreal 5, Pittsburgh 3 Los Angeles 4, Detroit 3 Dallas 4, Phoenix 0 Toronto 5, Ottawa 0 Carolina 3, N.Y. Islanders 1 N.Y. Rangers 3, New Jersey 1 Tampa Bay 2, Calgary 1, OT Columbus 4, Buffalo 0 Atlanta 4, Florida 2 Chicago 2, St. Louis 1 San Jose 4, Nashville 3 Minnesota 2, Philadelphia 1 Colorado 3, Edmonton 0 Today’s Games Pittsburgh at Washington, 9 a.m.

Boston at Montreal, noon

BASKETBALL College MEN Saturday’s Games ——— EAST Boston U. 68, Albany, N.Y. 53 Cent. Connecticut St. 61, Bryant 48 Charlotte 77, Fordham 72 Connecticut 64, DePaul 57 Cornell 74, Brown 60 Drexel 73, George Mason 60 Duke 66, Boston College 63 Duquesne 70, George Washington 63 Fairleigh Dickinson 71, Monmouth, N.J. 65 Georgetown 103, Villanova 90 Hartford 57, New Hampshire 54 Harvard 80, Penn 66 Holy Cross 73, Lafayette 46 Lehigh 77, American U. 65 Longwood 64, N.J. Tech 55 Maine 61, Binghamton 49 Marquette 82, Providence 79 Minnesota 66, Penn St. 64 Mount St. Mary’s, Md. 66, Wagner 50 Northeastern 75, Hofstra 55 Pittsburgh 83, Seton Hall 58 Princeton 54, Dartmouth 38 Quinnipiac 90, Sacred Heart 87 Rhode Island 93, Massachusetts 85 Robert Morris 75, St. Francis, Pa. 63 Saint Louis 68, La Salle 65 St. Francis, NY 88, Long Island U. 84, 3OT West Virginia 79, St. John’s 60 Yale 79, Columbia 64 SOUTH Appalachian St. 89, W. Carolina 77 Arkansas St. 66, New Orleans 52 Campbell 64, Florida Gulf Coast 52 Coastal Carolina 98, UNC Asheville 62 Coll. of Charleston 75, Samford 54 Davidson 84, Georgia Southern 74 E. Kentucky 66, Jacksonville St. 65 ETSU 75, Stetson 60 Elon 66, Furman 55 Florida 69, Mississippi St. 62

Florida St. 71, Miami 65 Gardner-Webb 82, Charleston Southern 73 Georgia 72, Vanderbilt 58 Georgia Tech 73, N.C. State 71 Gonzaga 66, Memphis 58 Grambling St. 65, Southern U. 59 Jackson St. 85, Alcorn St. 64 Kentucky 81, LSU 55 Liberty 60, Presbyterian 57 Louisiana-Lafayette 77, Ark.-Little Rock 51 Louisville 76, Rutgers 60 MVSU 82, Alabama St. 71 Marshall 100, East Carolina 49 Middle Tennessee 80, South Alabama 68 Mississippi 74, Alabama 67 Morehead St. 84, Tennessee Tech 75 Murray St. 65, Austin Peay 63 N. Carolina A&T 65, Delaware St. 54 N.C. Central 65, Savannah St. 60 Norfolk St. 64, Md.-Eastern Shore 62 North Texas 68, Fla. International 66 Richmond 71, Temple 54 S. Carolina St. 72, Hampton 60 S.C.-Upstate 68, Kennesaw St. 64 SMU 66, Tulane 48 Tennessee 79, South Carolina 53 Tennessee St. 74, Tenn.-Martin 68 The Citadel 68, Chattanooga 60 Va. Commonwealth 70, Old Dominion 58 Virginia Tech 70, Clemson 59 W. Kentucky 87, Troy 69 Wake Forest 64, Virginia 61, OT William & Mary 59, Georgia St. 56 Winston-Salem 62, Howard 58 Winthrop 87, VMI 83 Wofford 77, UNC Greensboro 59 MIDWEST Akron 75, Ball St. 70, OT Bradley 83, Evansville 63 Buffalo 65, Toledo 59 Butler 74, Wright St. 62 Centenary 80, IPFW 78 Chicago St. 76, Texas-Pan American 69 Cleveland St. 59, Loyola of Chicago 56 Dayton 90, Xavier 65 E. Illinois 75, SE Missouri 49 E. Michigan 70, Ohio 61 IUPUI 70, W. Illinois 42 Ill.-Chicago 74, Youngstown St. 68 Illinois 78, Michigan St. 73 Illinois St. 71, Drake 68 Kansas 75, Nebraska 64 Kansas St. 79, Iowa St. 75 Kent St. 68, Cent. Michigan 63 Miami (Ohio) 74, N. Illinois 69 Missouri St. 70, Creighton 52 N. Dakota St. 79, S. Utah 59 N. Iowa 55, S. Illinois 52 Oakland, Mich. 79, Oral Roberts 77 S. Dakota St. 78, UMKC 57 Valparaiso 74, Detroit 70 W. Michigan 65, Bowling Green 64 Wichita St. 76, Indiana St. 70 Wis.-Green Bay 61, Wis.-Milwaukee 54 Wisconsin 62, Michigan 44 SOUTHWEST Ark.-Pine Bluff 62, Alabama A&M 55 Arkansas 82, Auburn 79, OT Lamar 49, Stephen F.Austin 46 Oklahoma 80, Texas 71 Prairie View 63, Texas Southern 58 Sam Houston St. 75, Cent. Arkansas 70 Southern Miss. 57, Houston 55 Texas A&M 78, Baylor 71 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 71, Nicholls St. 46 Texas St. 95, McNeese St. 88 Texas Tech 81, Oklahoma St. 74 Texas-Arlington 81, Northwestern St. 80 UAB 76, Rice 55 UTEP 73, Tulsa 59 UTSA 64, SE Louisiana 57 FAR WEST California 72, UCLA 58 Colorado St. 80, Wyoming 64 Denver 73, Florida Atlantic 63 Idaho 79, Boise St. 55 Long Beach St. 65, CS Northridge 51 Loyola Marymount 77, Pepperdine 61 Missouri 84, Colorado 66 Montana 91, Idaho St. 68 New Mexico 88, San Diego St. 86, OT New Mexico St. 94, San Jose St. 82 Oregon St. 62, Oregon 42 Pacific 67, Cal Poly 61 Santa Clara 59, San Diego 43 Southern Cal 54, Stanford 49 TCU 65, Air Force 51 UC Irvine 76, CS Bakersfield 63 UC Riverside 76, Cal St.-Fullerton 59 UC Santa Barbara 81, UC Davis 77 UNLV 88, BYU 74 Utah St. 76, Nevada 65 Utah Valley 72, Houston Baptist 66 Washington 79, Arizona St. 56 Washington St. 78, Arizona 60 Weber St. 75, Montana St. 71 Saturday’s Result ——— OREGON STATE 62, OREGON 42 OREGON (12-10) Wilson 0-2 2-2 2, Jacob 0-3 1-2 1, Dunigan 3-5 3-6 9, Armstead 4-8 2-2 10, Porter 1-6 1-1 3, Sim 0-2 0-0 0, Humphrey 3-11 3-5 10, Wiley 0-0 0-0 0, Singler 3-6 0-1 7, Williams 0-4 0-1 0, Crittle 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 14-47 12-20 42.

OREGON ST. (10-12) S.Tarver 3-5 2-2 9, Johnson 6-13 2-2 18, Schaftenaar 3-4 2-2 9, Cunningham 4-6 3-3 11, Haynes 3-7 5-8 11, McShane 1-1 0-1 2, Hampton 0-0 0-0 0, Richard 0-0 0-0 0, Sturner 0-0 0-0 0, J.Tarver 1-2 0-0 2, Burton 0-0 0-1 0, Brandt 0-0 0-0 0, Deane 0-1 0-2 0, Wallace 0-3 0-0 0.

Totals 21-42 14-21 62.

Halftime—Oregon St. 32-25. 3-Point Goals—Oregon 2-17 (Singler 1-1, Humphrey 1-7, Williams 0-1, Wilson 0-1, Armstead 0-2, Sim 0-2, Porter 0-3), Oregon St. 6-18 (Johnson 4-9, Schaftenaar 1-1, S.Tarver 1-1, Cunningham 0-1, Deane 0-1, J.Tarver 0-1, Haynes 0-2, Wallace 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Oregon 28 (Humphrey 5), Oregon St. 34 (S.Tarver 5). Assists—Oregon 4 (Armstead, Humphrey, Porter, Singler 1), Oregon St. 20 (Burton, Cunningham, Haynes 4). Total Fouls—Oregon 18, Oregon St. 17. A—9,124.

Standings PACIFIC-10 CONFERENCE Through Thursday’s Games Conference All Games

W L Pct. 7 4 .636 6 5 .545 6 5 .545 6 5 .545 6 5 .545 6 5 .545 5 6 .454 4 6 .400 4 6 .400 4 7 .363 Today’s Games California 72, UCLA 58 Oregon State 62, Oregon 42 USC 54, Stanford 49 Washington State 78, Arizona 60 Washington 79, Arizona State 56

California Arizona St. Arizona UCLA Washington Southern Cal Washington St. Oregon St. Oregon Stanford

W 15 16 12 11 16 14 15 10 12 10

L 8 8 11 12 7 9 8 12 10 13

Pct. .652 .666 .521 .478 .695 .608 .652 .455 .545 .434

WOMEN Saturday’s Games ——— EAST Brown 61, Cornell 54 Colgate 61, Army 47 Duquesne 66, George Washington 64 Hartford 65, New Hampshire 35 Harvard 66, Penn 40 Massachusetts 60, Fordham 50 Navy 61, Bucknell 46 Princeton 58, Dartmouth 47 Syracuse 69, Marquette 60 Temple 55, La Salle 34 Vermont 72, Albany, N.Y. 63 West Virginia 75, Providence 59 Yale 81, Columbia 74 SOUTH Coastal Carolina 67, High Point 60 Davidson 83, UNC-Greensboro 53 Hampton 67, S. Carolina St. 47 Howard 55, Winston-Salem 44 Jackson St. 49, Alcorn St. 45 Jacksonville 54, Belmont 44 Jacksonville St. 49, E. Kentucky 46, OT Kennesaw St. 69, S.C.-Upstate 68 McNeese St. 77, Texas St. 70 Md.-Eastern Shore 76, Norfolk St. 56 Middle Tennessee 100, South Alabama 52 Morehead St. 80, Tennessee Tech 45 N. Carolina A&T 70, Delaware St. 56 New Orleans 70, Arkansas St. 57 Nicholls St. 61, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 58 North Florida 70, Lipscomb 48 Presbyterian 48, Winthrop 43 Rutgers 60, South Florida 52 Samford 57, Coll. of Charleston 50 Savannah St. 54, N.J. Tech 51, OT Southern Miss. 67, Marshall 39 Tenn.-Martin 60, Tennessee St. 51 Texas-Arlington 86, Northwestern St. 82 UCF 60, East Carolina 50 UTSA 61, SE Louisiana 49 W. Carolina 69, Furman 39 W. Kentucky 67, Troy 51 MIDWEST Akron 57, N. Illinois 39 Bowling Green 80, Ball St. 76 Butler 66, Valparaiso 52 Chicago St. 78, Texas-Pan American 63 DePaul 64, Villanova 60 Detroit 72, Wis.-Milwaukee 65 E. Illinois 71, SE Missouri 41 E. Michigan 78, Kent St. 72 IPFW 68, Centenary 28 Ill.-Chicago 72, Youngstown St. 53 Illinois St. 90, Indiana St. 61 Loyola of Chicago 74, Cleveland St. 64 N. Dakota St. 73, S. Utah 44 Nebraska 71, Texas A&M 60 Notre Dame 86, Pittsburgh 76 Oral Roberts 91, Oakland, Mich. 87 S. Dakota St. 76, UMKC 47 Toledo 76, Ohio 54 W. Illinois 61, IUPUI 50 W. Michigan 75, Miami (Ohio) 69 Wis.-Green Bay 74, Wright St. 50 SOUTHWEST Alabama A&M 57, Ark.-Pine Bluff 55 Baylor 76, Colorado 42 Cent. Arkansas 82, Sam Houston St. 63 Lamar 92, Stephen F.Austin 87 Oklahoma 77, Oklahoma St. 66 Prairie View 58, Texas Southern 49 TCU 77, Air Force 47 FAR WEST Arizona 80, Washington 50 BYU 76, UNLV 60 CS Bakersfield 78, UC Irvine 72, OT Cal Poly 99, Pacific 66 Florida Atlantic 70, Denver 56 Fresno St. 78, Hawaii 69 Gonzaga 70, Portland 58 Long Beach St. 86, CS Northridge 67 Louisiana Tech 74, Utah St. 54 Montana 67, Idaho St. 53 Montana St. 76, Weber St. 59 N. Colorado 66, N. Arizona 56 Nevada 72, San Jose St. 48 New Mexico 65, San Diego St. 58 New Mexico St. 85, Boise St. 76 Oregon 82, Oregon St. 62 Pepperdine 72, Loyola Marymount 62 Sacramento St. 78, E. Washington 69 Saint Mary’s, Calif. 56, San Francisco 46 San Diego 67, Santa Clara 58 UC Davis 62, UC Santa Barbara 54 UC Riverside 53, Cal St.-Fullerton 51 UCLA 44, California 32 Utah Valley 81, Houston Baptist 69 Washington St. 66, Arizona St. 62 Wyoming 69, Colorado St. 52

Scott Verplank 68-74-65—207 Brandt Snedeker 66-72-69—207 Kevin Sutherland 69-71-68—208 Ernie Els 68-70-70—208 John Rollins 71-71-67—209 Ryuji Imada 73-68-68—209 Paul Goydos 69-72-68—209 Stewart Cink 71-71-67—209 Jim Furyk 71-70-68—209 Y.E. Yang 71-70-68—209 Charlie Wi 72-68-69—209 Bo Van Pelt 70-70-69—209 Charley Hoffman 68-71-70—209 Phil Mickelson 72-66-71—209 Brian Davis 72-70-68—210 John Merrick 70-72-68—210 Kevin Na 72-67-71—210 Bryce Molder 71-68-71—210 Michael Allen 69-70-71—210 Briny Baird 70-72-69—211 Robert Allenby 72-69-70—211 D.A. Points 69-72-70—211 Rich Beem 74-69-68—211 Brenden Pappas 71-68-72—211 Michael Letzig 71-72-68—211 Jason Bohn 69-75-67—211 Troy Matteson 68-69-74—211 Jeff Overton 70-71-71—212 Marc Leishman 71-71-70—212 Tim Clark 69-72-71—212 Matt Kuchar 69-71-72—212 Webb Simpson 70-73-69—212 Stuart Appleby 71-71-71—213 Chad Campbell 70-72-71—213 Fred Couples 69-72-72—213 Jonathan Byrd 68-74-71—213 Woody Austin 71-72-70—213 Rod Pampling 70-70-73—213 Jimmy Walker 71-72-71—214 J.J. Henry 70-73-71—214 K.J. Choi 71-72-71—214 Aaron Baddeley 72-72-70—214 Greg Chalmers 71-73-70—214 Roland Thatcher 68-73-74—215 Brett Quigley 70-73-72—215 D.J. Trahan 72-71-72—215 Vaughn Taylor 73-70-72—215 Angel Cabrera 71-73-71—215 Nicholas Thompson 69-73-74—216 Ben Curtis 73-68-75—216 Kevin Streelman 69-73-74—216 Craig Bowden 69-74-73—216 Steve Flesch 73-70-73—216 Mark Wilson 72-72-72—216 Parker McLachlin 71-73-72—216 Matt Bettencourt 70-74-72—216 Nick O’Hern 69-74-74—217 Bob Estes 72-72-73—217 Fredrik Jacobson 68-74-76—218 Rory Sabbatini 68-74-77—219 David Duval 68-75-76—219 Ryan Moore 70-74-75—219 Bill Lunde 72-72-75—219 Cameron Beckman 67-77-76—220 Leaderboard at time of suspended play SCORE THRU Steve Stricker -14 14 Luke Donald -9 F Andres Romero -9 14 George McNeill -8 F J.B. Holmes -8 16 Kevin Stadler -8 15 Dustin Johnson -8 14 Alex Prugh -7 F Anthony Kim -7 16 Steve Marino -7 17 Tim Wilkinson -7 15

TENNIS ATP ASSOCIATION OF TENNIS PROFESSIONALS ——— ZAGREB INDOORS Saturday Zagreb, Croatia Singles Semifinals Marin Cilic (1), Croatia, def. Jurgen Melzer (3), Austria, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Michael Berrer, Germany, def. Philipp Petzschner, Germany, 7-6 (6), 7-5.

SA OPEN Saturday Johannesburg Singles Semifinals Stephane Robert (8), France, def. David Ferrer (2), Spain, 7-5, 6-4.

Feliciano Lopez (3), Spain, def. Gael Monfils (1), France, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (1).

MOVISTAR OPEN Saturday Santiago, Chile Singles Semifinals Juan Monaco (2), Argentina, def. Joao Souza, Brazil, 6-1, 6-4.

Thomaz Bellucci (3) Brazil, def. Fernando Gonzalez (1), Chile, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.

DEALS Transactions

GOLF PGA Tour NORTHERN TRUST OPEN Saturday At Riviera Country Club Los Angeles Purse: $6.4 million Yardage: 7,325; Par 71 Partial Third Round Due to darkness plays was suspended Luke Donald 68-70-66—204 J.B. Holmes 68-69-67—204 George McNeill 70-69-66—205 Alex Prugh 71-69-66—206 Steve Marino 70-67-69—206

BASEBALL American League SEATTLE MARINERS—Agreed to terms with LHP Erik Bedard on a one-year contract.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Acquired LHP Dana Eveland from Oakland for a player to be named or cash.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS—Suspended F Tyrus Thomas for one game for conduct detrimental to the team.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS—Reassigned G Justin Pogge to San Antonio (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS—Traded F Ville Leino to Philadelphia for D Ole-Kristian Tollefsen and a 2011 fifthround draft pick.

MONTREAL CANADIENS—Assigned D Yannick Weber to Hamilton (AHL).

NHL ROUNDUP

Canadians lead Sharks over Predators The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The San Jose Sharks beat the Nashville Predators with a nifty play from three Canadian Olympic forwards.

Dany Heatley, Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton teamed up for a power-play goal at 11:57 of the third period to break a tie in the Sharks’ 4-3 victory Saturday night.

After Predators defenseman Dan Hamhuis was sent to the penalty box for boarding Sharks defenseman Kent Huskins 200 feet from the Nashville goal at 11:32 of the final period, Heatley, Marleau, and Thornton went to work.

From the right boards, Thornton found Marleau on the goal line to the right of the net where he slid a pass through the crease, where Heatley had an easy tap-in for his second power-play goal of the game and 32nd goal of the season.

“Overall, it was kind of a sloppy game by both sides,” Heatley said.

“Fortunately we took advantage of a couple of power plays.”

In other games on Saturday: Kings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Red Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

LOS ANGELES — Michal Handzus scored his second goal on a rebound with 2:21 to play, and Los Angeles furiously rallied from a threegoal deficit to set a franchise record with their ninth straight victory.

Canucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bruins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 BOSTON — Pavel Demitra tied the game on a tip-in with 4:42 left and scored the only goal of the shootout to help Vancouver hand Boston its 10th straight loss.

Canadiens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Penguins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 MONTREAL — Brian Gionta had two goals and an assist and Jaroslav Halak made 18 saves to win his third straight start, leading the Canadiens to the victory.

Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Coyotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 DALLAS — Marty Turco made 34 saves for his 39th career shutout, rookie Jamie Benn had his first two-goal game, and Dallas snapped road-weary Phoenix’s season-best winning streak at six games.

Maple Leafs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Senators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 TORONTO — Jean-Sebastien

Giguere became the first goalie in Toronto history to have shutouts in his first two games with the team, stopping 30 shots to help the Maple Leafs end Ottawa’s team-record winning streak at 11.

Rangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 NEW YORK — Henrik Lundqvist made 41 saves, and Ryan Callahan, Marian Gaborik and Chris Drury scored for New York.

Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 TAMPA, Fla. — Andrej Meszaros scored 1:58 into overtime to give Tampa Bay its seventh victory in 10 games.

Blue Jackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sabres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Steve Mason stopped 28 shots for his third shutout of the season for Columbus, and Rick Nash and Raffi Torres scored against the NHL’s top penalty-killing team.

Hurricanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Islanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Justin Peters made 34 saves in his NHL debut, and Jussi Jokinen, Patrick

Dwyer and Joni Pitkanen scored for Carolina.

Thrashers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Panthers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ATLANTA — Atlanta newcomer Niclas Bergfors scored the go-ahead goal with 4:26 left and the Thrashers beat Florida to end a three-game losing streak.

Wild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Flyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Anton Khudobin made 38 saves in his first NHL start, and Cal Clutterbuck and Owen Nolan scored in Minnesota’s victory over Philadelphia.

Blackhawks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ST. LOUIS — Jonathan Toews had a goal and an assist, Antti Niemi stopped 34 shots and Chicago snapped a season-high three-game losing streak with a win over St. Louis.

Avalanche. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Oilers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 DENVER — Craig Anderson made 20 saves for his sixth shutout of the season, and Wojtek Wolski, Ryan Wilson and Brandon Yip scored in Colorado’s win over Edmonton.

N BA / G OL F

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 7, 2010 D3

Kobe sits, but Lakers handle Blazers

By Anne M. Peterson The Associated Press

PORTLAND — Lamar Odom thinks the reason the Los Angeles Lakers finally snapped a nine-game losing streak in Portland was because they didn’t have Kobe Bryant.

But he meant no disrespect.

“I think it made us a little more focused as a group, to come in here and do whatever we had to do to stay in the game,” said Odom, who matched his career high with 22 rebounds to go with 10 points in the Lakers’ 99-82 victory over the Trail Blazers on SaturNext up day night.

• Oklahoma Bryant sat out with City at a sore left ankle. The Portland 12-time All-Star and last year’s NBA finals • When: MVP had played in 235 Tuesday, straight games.

7 p.m.

Ron Artest had 21 points and the Lakers pulled away in the fourth quarter, leading by as many as 19 points.

Portland was again without All-Star guard Brandon Roy, who announced earlier in the evening that he would miss the next three games and the All-Star game to heal his sore right hamstring.

The Lakers had not won at the Rose Garden since Feb. 23, 2005. The victory snapped a three-game losing streak overall against the Blazers.

“We were aware of it,” Odom said about the streak. “And we wanted to come up here and play strong.”

LaMarcus Aldridge led Portland with 16 points. He was asked whether the Blazers let their guard down a little bit when Bryant didn’t play.

“No, we came to play. The first quarter, we were right there. Second quarter, down eight or so, but we had good looks,” he said. “They just didn’t fall for us tonight. It was just one of those nights were we couldn’t find it.”

Bryant originally sprained his ankle

Rick Bowmer / The Associated Press

Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge backs down Los Angeles’ Pau Gasol in the first quarter during Saturday’s NBA basketball game in Portland. in Philadelphia last week. He aggravated it during Wednesday night’s victory over Charlotte when Odom stepped on his foot.

Bryant had last missed a game on

March 7, 2007, because of a suspension.

He had not missed a game because of injury since Dec. 8, 2006.

The Lakers said he would be evaluated today.

NBA ROUNDUP

Without All-Stars, Nuggets fall to Jazz The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz already blew one chance to gain on Denver when the Nuggets were without their two top players.

When the Nuggets showed up short-handed again, Utah was able to take advantage.

Andrei Kirilenko scored 22 points and Carlos Boozer had 19 points and 13 rebounds as the Jazz increased their winning streak to eight with a 116106 victory over the Nuggets on Saturday night.

“As a team we’re playing really great basketball right now. This is the basketball we’re supposed to play,” said Kirilenko, who also had five steals.

Utah had a huge edge from the start when the Nuggets said All-Stars Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups would not play because of sprained ankles. Denver had also just beaten the Lakers the night before in Los Angeles while the Jazz had been off since Wednesday.

The Jazz caught the weary Nuggets early with 38 points in the first quarter, then held on for the victory and pulled within two games of Denver in the Northwest Division.

“It’s huge. We’ve got a chance to get the second (playoff) seed,” said Boozer, who had missed three straight with a strained right calf. “If we can maintain our streak, we have a chance to get it maybe even before the All-Star break gets here.”

Even without their top two players, the Nuggets were able to cut a 17-point deficit to three early in the fourth quarter before Utah put the game away.

“I thought we kept fighting and fighting. We didn’t have a lot of things go our way,” Denver coach George Karl said.

“We’re banged up. We need a couple of days off.”

Deron Williams added 22 points, nine assists and three blocks for the Jazz.

Ty Lawson led Denver with 25 points.

Anthony and Billups, who scored a career-high 39 the night before in a win over the Lakers in Los Angeles, were both out with sprained ankles.

It was the eighth game in a row without Anthony, who averages nearly 30 points per game.

The Nuggets also rested Billups and still were able to hang with the Jazz until late in the game.

“We all played hard, especially when we made our ad-

justments after the first half,” Lawson said. “We’ve just got to keep winning and make sure we hold our spot.”

J.R. Smith scored 19 and Kenyon Martin had 16 points and 13 rebounds for Denver.

Also on Saturday: Cavaliers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Knicks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 CLEVELAND — LeBron James scored 47 points, including 24 straight for Cleveland in the first half, and the Cavaliers held off New York for its 11th straight victory.

Bulls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 CHICAGO — Luol Deng scored 25 points, Derrick Rose added 24 and Chicago snapped a three-game losing streak.

Hornets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Bobcats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Darren Collison scored a careerhigh 24 points filling in for Chris Paul, David West added 21 points, and New Orleans gave Emeka Okafor a victory in his return to Charlotte.

Timberwolves . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Grizzlies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 MINNEAPOLIS — Al Jefferson rallied Minnesota to its season-high fourth straight victory by scoring 16 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter.

Bucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Pacers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 MILWAUKEE — Andrew Bogut scored 21 points and Luc Mbah a Moute had 18 to lead Milwaukee to the victory.

Pistons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Jonas Jerebko scored 20 points on nine-for-nine shooting, and the Pistons snapped a fivegame home losing streak.

76ers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Rockets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 HOUSTON — Reserve Thaddeus Young scored 17 points, Willie Green added 15, and Philadelphia overcame a 13point, fourth-quarter deficit to beat Houston for its fourth straight victory.

Spurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Clippers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 LOS ANGELES — George Hill scored all of his 22 points in the first three quarters against a Los Angeles squad suddenly faced with yet another transitionary period, and San Antonio breezed to a victory.

Thunder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 OAKLAND, Calif. — Kevin Durant scored 29 points, Russell Westbrook added 21, and Oklahoma City won its fifth straight, beating Golden State.

“We reacted well,” Lakers forward Pau Gasol said. “We played hard, we played well and the result was a very good win.”

Bryant, who is averaging 28 points, played the night before in the Lakers’ 126113 loss to the Denver Nuggets. He had 33 points and nine rebounds.

“At 5:30, I thought Kobe was going to play,” Lakers coach Phil Jackson said.

“Then I went to the coach’s room and Kobe followed me and said. ‘I’m thinking about not playing tonight.’ I said, ‘It’s OK if you don’t.’

“Then I saw him 10 minutes later at 6 p.m. and he said, ‘I’m going to take the night off.’ ” Bryant left the locker room at the Rose Garden before reporters were allowed to enter.

Roy has missed 12 of the last 13 games.

He was originally hurt in a Jan. 13 game against Milwaukee, then aggravated the injury on Jan. 20 at Philadelphia.

Roy, who leads the Blazers with 23.1 points per game, said at a news conference before the game that there was no formal timetable for his return.

The Blazers went up 39-30 in the second quarter, but the Lakers wouldn’t allow the margin to get any bigger.

Derek Fisher’s fast-break layup pulled Los Angeles to within 41-39 before Gasol’s bank shot tied it.

Nicolas Batum’s three-pointer prevented the Lakers from going ahead until Artest’s three-pointer made it 48-46 with 1:07 left before the half.

Artest added a 30-foot three-pointer at the buzzer to give the Lakers a 54-48 lead going into the break.

“They left me wide open, and I’ve been shooting pretty well from three this year,” he said.

Artest’s layup put the Lakers up 65-55 midway through the third quarter, and Gasol’s dunk made it 73-64 to start the fourth.

The Lakers got a scare early in the game when Andrew Bynum left with a hip injury. He returned, but then sat out the second half. His condition was unclear.

NBA SCOREBOARD SUMMARIES Saturday’s Games ——— L.A. LAKERS (99) Odom 4-9 2-2 10, Gasol 6-14 1-2 13, Bynum 1-3 1-2 3, Fisher 5-10 2-3 14, Artest 9-12 0-0 21, Brown 8-15 2-3 19, Powell 1-5 0-0 2, Farmar 5-9 0-2 12, Walton 0-3 0-0 0, Vujacic 2-4 1-1 5.

Totals 41-84 9-15 99.

PORTLAND (82) Webster 1-7 0-0 2, Aldridge 7-16 2-2 16, Howard 5-7 0-0 10, Miller 5-8 4-4 14, Bayless 4-8 5-6 13, Batum 3-9 0-2 8, Cunningham 3-5 2-2 8, Fernandez 2-6 1-1 7, Blake 1-5 0-0 3, Pendergraph 0-0 0-0 0, Mills 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 31-71 15-19 82.

L.A. Lakers 26 28 19 26 — 99 Portland 29 19 16 18 — 82 3-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 8-19 (Artest 3-4, Fisher 2-2, Farmar 2-5, Brown 1-3, Walton 0-1, Vujacic 0-1, Odom 0-3), Portland 5-18 (Fernandez 2-4, Batum 2-5, Blake 1-5, Webster 0-4).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 55 (Odom 22), Portland 38 (Howard 7). Assists— L.A. Lakers 24 (Fisher, Odom 6), Portland 20 (Blake 7). Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 16, Portland 18. Technicals—Gasol, Bayless, Portland defensive three second. A—20,688 (19,980).

——— INDIANA (81) Granger 5-14 2-2 14, Murphy 2-8 1-1 6, Hibbert 5-7 0-0 10, Price 3-8 3-3 9, Rush 2-8 0-0 5, Ford 8-11 2-2 20, D.Jones 3-4 0-0 6, Dunleavy 4-9 3-3 11, Diener 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 32-69 11-13 81.

MILWAUKEE (93) Delfino 5-13 2-2 16, Mbah a Moute 7-9 4-4 18, Bogut 9-15 3-3 21, Jennings 2-10 0-2 5, Bell 3-8 2-2 9, Stackhouse 5-11 1-2 14, Ridnour 16 2-2 4, Ilyasova 2-7 1-2 5, Warrick 0-0 1-2 1.

Totals 34-79 16-21 93.

Indiana 21 25 17 18 — 81 Milwaukee 31 22 17 23 — 93 3-Point Goals—Indiana 6-18 (Ford 2-2, Granger 2-4, Rush 1-3, Murphy 1-5, Price 0-1, Dunleavy 0-3), Milwaukee 9-26 (Delfino 4-9, Stackhouse 3-6, Bell 1-3, Jennings 1-3, Mbah a Moute 0-1, Ridnour 0-2, Ilyasova 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Indiana 38 (Murphy 11), Milwaukee 51 (Mbah a Moute 11). Assists— Indiana 18 (Granger 5), Milwaukee 21 (Jennings 7). Total Fouls—Indiana 20, Milwaukee 16.

A—18,717 (18,717).

——— MIAMI (91) Richardson 5-13 0-0 13, Beasley 2-11 2-2 6, O’Neal 9-16 6-7 24, Alston 4-6 0-0 11, Wade 7-21 6-8 20, Haslem 2-5 0-0 4, Anthony 0-0 2-2 2, Wright 3-6 0-0 7, Arroyo 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 34-82 16-19 91.

CHICAGO (95) Deng 8-19 9-11 25, Gibson 3-7 2-4 8, Miller 3-9 6-7 13, Rose 9-19 6-8 24, Hinrich 3-7 0-0 6, Salmons 5-13 5-5 15, Richard 1-4 0-0 2, Brown 1-4 0-0 2, Pargo 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-82 2835 95.

Miami 27 15 27 22 — 91 Chicago 23 26 20 26 — 95 3-Point Goals—Miami 7-21 (Alston 3-5, Richardson 3-8, Wright 1-3, Beasley 0-2, Wade 0-3), Chicago 1-8 (Miller 1-4, Brown 0-1, Hinrich 0-1, Salmons 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Miami 57 (O’Neal 16), Chicago 50 (Miller 8). Assists—Miami 19 (Wade 8), Chicago 16 (Salmons 5). Total Fouls—Miami 23, Chicago 16. Technicals—Richardson. A—22,352 (20,917).

——— MEMPHIS (102) Gay 13-18 0-0 27, Randolph 7-18 0-1 14, Gasol 5-11 5-5 15, Conley 6-11 0-0 14, Mayo 7-14 0-0 16, Williams 3-5 0-0 7, Young 0-4 1-2 1, Thabeet 0-1 0-0 0, Carroll 3-4 0-0 6, Hunter 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 45-87 6-8 102.

MINNESOTA (109) Gomes 10-14 1-2 26, Jefferson 11-17 1-4 23, Hollins 2-3 0-0 4, Flynn 2-6 2-2 6, Brewer 8-17 0-0 17, Love 3-7 5-6 12, Wilkins 0-2 0-0 0, Sessions 8-12 3-5 19, Ellington 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 45-81 12-19 109.

Memphis 27 26 25 24 — 102 Minnesota 17 30 29 33 — 109 3-Point Goals—Memphis 6-14 (Conley 23, Mayo 2-6, Williams 1-1, Gay 1-2, Randolph 0-1, Young 0-1), Minnesota 7-14 (Gomes 5-7, Love 1-2, Brewer 1-5). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Memphis 43 (Randolph 13), Minnesota 44 (Jefferson, Love 7). Assists—Memphis 27 (Randolph, Conley 6), Minnesota 26 (Sessions 6). Total Fouls—Memphis 16, Minnesota 10. A—14,159 (19,356).

——— NEW JERSEY (92) Hayes 3-6 2-2 9, Yi 1-7 4-4 6, Lopez 8-12 4-5 20, Harris 7-12 4-5 21, Lee 4-12 0-0 9, Humphries 6-14 2-4 14, Douglas-Roberts 0-1 0-1 0, Dooling 4-7 0-0 11, Williams 1-3 0-0 2.

Totals 34-74 16-21 92.

DETROIT (99) Prince 2-6 0-1 4, Jerebko 9-9 0-1 20, Wallace 3-4 3-4 9, Stuckey 4-13 2-2 10, Hamilton 5-14 7-10 17, Maxiell 6-8 1-1 13, Bynum 4-7 0-0 9, Gordon 1-5 2-2 5, Villanueva 4-7 0-0 12. Totals 38-73 15-21 99.

New Jersey 18 29 24 21 — 92 Detroit 26 30 22 21 — 99 3-Point Goals—New Jersey 8-15 (Dooling 3-5, Harris 3-5, Hayes 1-2, Lee 1-3), Detroit 8-12

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Boston Toronto New York Philadelphia New Jersey

W 32 27 19 19 4

L 16 23 31 31 46

Orlando Atlanta Charlotte Miami Washington

W 33 32 24 24 17

L 17 17 25 27 32

Cleveland Chicago Milwaukee Indiana Detroit

W 41 24 23 18 17

L 11 25 26 33 32

Pct .667 .540 .380 .380 .080

GB — 6 14 14 29

L10 5-5 7-3 3-7 6-4 1-9

Str W-3 W-1 L-2 W-4 L-6

Home 15-8 18-6 12-15 8-16 3-20

Away 17-8 9-17 7-16 11-15 1-26

Conf 22-10 19-16 13-20 10-17 3-27

Away 14-12 11-12 6-19 11-15 8-16

Conf 23-10 18-11 15-16 15-15 13-18

Away 19-8 9-17 7-19 6-20 5-18

Conf 22-6 14-14 15-13 14-19 13-17

Southeast Division Pct .660 .653 .490 .471 .347

GB — ½ 8½ 9½ 15½

L10 7-3 6-4 4-6 3-7 4-6

Str L-1 W-2 L-3 L-5 W-1

Home 19-5 21-5 18-6 13-12 9-16

Central Division Pct .788 .490 .469 .353 .347

GB — 15½ 16½ 22½ 22½

L10 10-0 6-4 7-3 4-6 3-7

Str W-11 W-1 W-2 L-1 W-1

Home 22-3 15-8 16-7 12-13 12-14

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Dallas San Antonio Houston New Orleans Memphis

W 31 29 27 27 26

L 19 20 23 24 24

Denver Utah Oklahoma City Portland Minnesota

W 34 31 29 30 13

L 17 18 21 23 38

L.A. Lakers Phoenix L.A. Clippers Sacramento Golden State

W 39 31 21 16 13

L 13 21 29 33 36

Pct .620 .592 .540 .529 .520

GB — 1½ 4 4½ 5

L10 5-5 5-5 5-5 5-5 4-6

Str L-1 W-1 L-1 W-1 L-3

Home 15-9 19-10 15-10 16-8 18-7

Away 16-10 10-10 12-13 11-16 8-17

Conf 17-14 16-15 21-14 19-12 17-18

Away 12-13 9-12 14-11 12-13 4-21

Conf 21-11 17-13 13-15 19-12 7-26

Away 15-9 13-15 7-19 3-21 4-22

Conf 21-10 19-11 10-20 10-20 7-23

Northwest Division Pct .667 .633 .580 .566 .255

GB — 2 4½ 5 21

L10 7-3 9-1 7-3 4-6 5-5

Str L-1 W-8 W-5 L-1 W-4

Home 22-4 22-6 15-10 18-10 9-17

Pacific Division Pct .750 .596 .420 .327 .265

GB — 8 17 21½ 24½

L10 Str 7-3 W-1 7-3 W-5 3-7 L-2 1-9 L-5 1-9 L-8 ——— Saturday’s Games

New Orleans 104, Charlotte 99 Detroit 99, New Jersey 92 Chicago 95, Miami 91 Philadelphia 102, Houston 95 Utah 116, Denver 106 Oklahoma City 104, Golden State 95

Home 24-4 18-6 14-10 13-12 9-14

Atlanta at Washington, ppd., snow Cleveland 113, New York 106 Minnesota 109, Memphis 102 Milwaukee 93, Indiana 81 L.A. Lakers 99, Portland 82 San Antonio 98, L.A. Clippers 81 Today’s Games

Sacramento at Toronto, 9 a.m.

Orlando at Boston, 11:30 a.m.

Monday’s Games

New Orleans at Orlando, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.

Okur 3-10 2-2 8, Williams 7-16 7-10 22, Brewer 1-4 4-6 6, Millsap 6-7 4-6 16, Price 2-4 0-0 4, Miles 4-10 1-1 12, Matthews 1-8 5-6 7. Totals 40-81 31-40 116.

Denver 28 27 31 20 — 106 Utah 38 28 27 23 — 116 3-Point Goals—Denver 4-16 (Smith 2-6, Lawson 1-2, Afflalo 1-3, Graham 0-1, Andersen 0-1, Carter 0-3), Utah 5-17 (Miles 3-6, Kirilenko 1-3, Williams 1-4, Okur 0-2, Matthews 0-2).

Fouled Out—Millsap. Rebounds—Denver 52 (Martin 13), Utah 50 (Boozer 13). Assists—Denver 14 (Lawson 4), Utah 27 (Williams 9). Total Fouls—Denver 29, Utah 26. Flagrant Fouls— Graham. A—19,911 (19,911).

——— SAN ANTONIO (98) Jefferson 2-9 0-0 5, Duncan 5-9 1-2 11, McDyess 4-8 0-0 8, Parker 6-12 1-2 14, Hill 811 2-2 22, Bogans 1-2 0-0 2, Bonner 3-8 2-2 11, Ginobili 2-6 4-6 9, Blair 2-7 1-1 5, Mason 1-7 2-2 4, Finley 2-4 0-0 5, Ratliff 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 37-86 13-17 98.

L.A. CLIPPERS (81) Butler 1-8 0-0 2, Camby 2-5 0-0 4, Kaman 8-16 5-5 21, B.Davis 3-8 2-2 8, Gordon 7-14 6-7 20, Collins 2-5 2-2 6, Jordan 3-6 0-0 6, R.Davis 2-3 1-2 6, Smith 2-7 0-0 4, Thornton 0-0 2-2 2, Novak 1-1 0-0 2, Brown 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 31-75 18-20 81.

San Antonio 28 21 33 16 — 98 L.A. Clippers 10 17 35 19 — 81 3-Point Goals—San Antonio 11-28 (Hill 4-6, Bonner 3-8, Parker 1-1, Ginobili 1-2, Finley 13, Jefferson 1-4, Bogans 0-1, Mason 0-3), L.A. Clippers 1-9 (R.Davis 1-1, Collins 0-1, B.Davis 0-1, Gordon 0-3, Butler 0-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—San Antonio 48 (McDyess 10), L.A. Clippers 51 (Camby 12). Assists—San Antonio 26 (Parker 14), L.A. Clippers 21 (B.Davis 9). Total Fouls—San Antonio 18, L.A. Clippers 19. Technicals—B.Davis, Kaman. A—18,258 (19,060).

——— OKLAHOMA CITY (104) Durant 7-21 13-14 29, Green 7-16 2-2 18, Krstic 4-10 2-2 10, Westbrook 8-17 5-6 21, Sefolosha 4-7 0-0 8, Collison 1-4 0-0 2, Harden 3-8 0-0 7, Ibaka 2-3 0-0 4, Maynor 2-3 0-0 5, Ollie 0-0 0-0 0, Mullens 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 38-90 22-24 104.

GOLDEN STATE (95) Karl 4-12 1-2 10, Maggette 8-16 8-12 24, Biedrins 2-5 0-0 4, Curry 9-15 2-3 23, Ellis 6-22 1-2 15, Tolliver 5-10 0-0 11, Watson 0-3 0-0 0, Turiaf 1-1 0-0 2, Morrow 2-4 0-0 5, Hunter 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 37-88 13-21 95.

Oklahoma City 26 26 36 16 — 104 Golden State 27 23 23 22 — 95 3-Point Goals—Oklahoma City 6-14 (Durant 2-4, Green 2-5, Maynor 1-1, Harden 1-3, Sefolosha 0-1), Golden State 8-23 (Curry 3-7, Ellis 2-5, Tolliver 1-1, Morrow 1-2, Karl 1-6, Watson 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Oklahoma City 54 (Collison 10), Golden State 59 (Biedrins 18). Assists—Oklahoma City 22 (Westbrook 10), Golden State 23 (Ellis 6). Total Fouls—Oklahoma City 23, Golden State 22. A—17,825 (19,596).

GOLF ROUNDUP

Stricker takes big lead at Riviera The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Steve Stricker had quite the Hollywood experience during a night out from the Northern Trust Open.

He went to a Lakers game Friday and spent more time watching the stars than players. Denzel Washington in the parking lot. Jack Nicholson courtside, along with George Lopez and one of the Kardashian sisters (he looked it up on the Internet — it was Khloe).

In unexpected sunshine Saturday afternoon at Riviera, Stricker was the star of his own show.

With an impeccable display of wedges and putting during a pivotal stretch in the middle of his round, Stricker turned a one-shot deficit into a fiveshot lead in the Northern Trust Open before darkness halted the third round as he faced a 30-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole.

“I did a lot of good things,” said Stricker, who was at 14under par.

The clubhouse leaders were Luke Donald, who shot a bogey-free 66, and J.B. Holmes, who made one final birdie to finish his 67. They were at 9under 204, tied with Andres Romero, who was 9 under and in the final group with Stricker.

Stricker wasn’t sure how big his lead had grown, nor did he care. All that mattered was returning to Riviera at 7 a.m. today to finish off the third round, and trying to keep hitting the shots that put him in this position.

The tournament caught a huge break with the weather. A storm system off the California coast managed to dodge Riviera in the afternoon, leaving mostly sunny conditions and allowing for enough play that the tournament is expected to end today.

Also on Saturday: Two share lead in Dubai DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Lee Westwood and Miguel Angel Jimenez each shot 68 to catch overnight leader Thongchai Jaidee after the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic. Thongchai shot a 69 to keep a share of the lead, and was also joined by Alvaro Quiros (67) in a quartet with 11-under totals of 205.

Rory McIlroy was two shots back in fifth place after a 69.

Tom Watson shot 71 to trail the leaders by nine strokes.

Herman wins Moonah Classic FINGAL, Australia — Jim Herman won the Moonah Classic for his first Nationwide Tour title, birdieing the first hole of a playoff with fellow American Chris Kirk.

Kiradech on top by two strokes BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat has a two-stroke lead after the third round of the Asian Tour International.

LEADERS All Times PST

(Villanueva 4-4, Jerebko 2-2, Bynum 1-2, Gordon 1-2, Stuckey 0-1, Hamilton 0-1). Fouled Out— None. Rebounds—New Jersey 42 (Humphries 9), Detroit 44 (Wallace 10). Assists—New Jersey 21 (Harris 7), Detroit 29 (Stuckey 11).

Total Fouls—New Jersey 17, Detroit 18. Technicals—Wallace, Detroit defensive three second.

A—20,176 (22,076).

——— NEW ORLEANS (104) Stojakovic 7-12 1-1 18, West 7-14 7-9 21, Okafor 6-10 4-4 16, Collison 9-17 5-5 24, Peterson 3-7 0-2 8, Posey 4-9 0-0 11, Songaila 1-5 0-0 2, Hart 1-1 0-0 2, Wright 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 39-77 17-21 104.

CHARLOTTE (99) Wallace 6-11 1-1 14, Diaw 2-9 6-6 10, Mohammed 7-9 1-2 15, Felton 2-9 4-4 8, Jackson 9-17 4-5 26, Augustin 5-6 2-2 13, Murray 4-10 0-5 8, Graham 2-6 0-0 5, Diop 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 37-77 18-27 99.

New Orleans 21 22 36 25 — 104 Charlotte 26 27 21 25 — 99 3-Point Goals—New Orleans 9-22 (Posey 3-6, Stojakovic 3-7, Peterson 2-5, Collison 1-4), Charlotte 7-18 (Jackson 4-5, Augustin 1-1, Graham 1-3, Wallace 1-4, Felton 0-1, Diaw 0-2, Murray 0-2).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—New Orleans 44 (Posey 8), Charlotte 47 (Diaw 8). Assists—New Orleans 20 (West, Collison, Peterson 4), Charlotte 29 (Felton 7). Total Fouls—New Orleans 21, Charlotte 14. Technicals—Jackson. A—19,164 (19,077).

——— NEW YORK (106) Gallinari 5-10 0-0 13, Chandler 2-7 2-2 6, Lee 10-14 0-0 20, Robinson 9-18 3-3 26, Jeffries 3-4 5-5 12, Duhon 2-6 0-0 5, Harrington 6-14 2-2 16, Hill 4-5 0-0 8. Totals 41-78 12-12 106.

CLEVELAND (113) James 17-31 7-7 47, Hickson 5-7 0-0 10, O’Neal 8-13 3-5 19, Gibson 2-6 0-0 6, Parker 4-6 1-2 11, Ilgauskas 3-6 0-0 6, Moon 1-2 1-1 3, Varejao 3-5 0-0 6, J.Williams 1-4 2-2 5. Totals 44-80 14-17 113.

New York 24 30 26 26 — 106 Cleveland 44 30 20 19 — 113 3-Point Goals—New York 12-27 (Robinson 5-7, Gallinari 3-5, Harrington 2-8, Jeffries 1-2, Duhon 1-3, Chandler 0-2), Cleveland 11-22 (James 6-12, Parker 2-3, Gibson 2-3, J.Williams 1-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—New York 35 (Lee 8), Cleveland 41 (James 8). Assists—New York 27 (Duhon 8), Cleveland 22 (James 8). Total Fouls—New York 15, Cleveland 10. A—20,562 (20,562).

——— PHILADELPHIA (102) Brand 5-14 3-3 13, Iguodala 3-8 6-6 14, Dalembert 2-2 0-0 4, Holiday 2-5 4-4 10, Green 5-8 4-4 15, Speights 2-3 0-0 4, Young 7-10 2-2 17, Williams 3-12 2-2 9, Carney 3-7 1-2 8, Ivey 2-2 0-0 6, Smith 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 35-72 22-23 102.

HOUSTON (95) Battier 2-7 0-0 5, Scola 4-10 0-0 8, Hayes 2-8 1-2 5, Brooks 11-25 6-7 34, Ariza 3-9 2-4 9, Budinger 1-6 0-0 3, Landry 5-10 3-5 13, Lowry 4-6 6-6 14, Dorsey 2-2 0-0 4, Taylor 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 34-83 18-24 95.

Philadelphia 26 21 23 32 — 102 Houston 22 35 19 19 — 95 3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 10-24 (Ivey 2-2, Iguodala 2-5, Holiday 2-5, Young 1-2, Carney 1-3, Green 1-3, Williams 1-4), Houston 9-25 (Brooks 6-11, Ariza 1-2, Budinger 1-4, Battier 1-6, Lowry 02). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Philadelphia 47 (Dalembert, Iguodala 10), Houston 46 (Landry 10). Assists—Philadelphia 19 (Iguodala 6), Houston 17 (Brooks, Ariza 4). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 23, Houston 19. A—17,415 (18,043).

——— DENVER (106) Graham 7-9 2-2 16, Martin 6-14 4-6 16, Nene 1-3 2-2 4, Lawson 8-13 8-11 25, Afflalo 1-9 0-0 3, Smith 6-18 5-5 19, Carter 2-8 2-2 6, Andersen 5-7 5-6 15, Allen 1-2 0-0 2, Petro 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 37-83 28-34 106.

UTAH (116) Kirilenko 8-11 5-6 22, Boozer 8-11 3-3 19,

Through Friday’s games SCORING G FG FT PTS Anthony, DEN 38 384 327 1130 Durant, OKC 49 481 422 1455 James, CLE 51 505 400 1501 Bryant, LAL 51 527 302 1426 Wade, MIA 50 476 343 1349 Ellis, GOL 46 478 219 1217 Nowitzki, DAL 49 436 324 1225 Bosh, TOR 50 430 343 1209 Roy, POR 40 328 213 924 Johnson, ATL 49 420 146 1073 Stoudemire, PHX 52 413 274 1100 Maggette, GOL 46 304 335 953 Randolph, MEM 49 405 195 1011 Evans, SAC 44 329 222 904 Jackson, CHA 48 358 199 985 Kaman, LAC 43 362 142 866 Lee, NYK 49 409 159 977 Rose, CHI 48 402 143 952 Gay, MEM 47 352 185 926 Duncan, SAN 45 347 192 886

AVG 29.7 29.7 29.4 28.0 27.0 26.5 25.0 24.2 23.1 21.9 21.2 20.7 20.6 20.5 20.5 20.1 19.9 19.8 19.7 19.7

REBOUNDS G OFF DEF Howard, ORL 50 182 488 Camby, LAC 48 157 424 Noah, CHI 46 176 376 Lee, NYK 49 126 439 Randolph, MEM 49 213 350 Bosh, TOR 50 152 420 Wallace, CHA 46 95 410 Duncan, SAN 45 149 337 Boozer, UTA 45 86 396 Haywood, WAS 48 196 300

TOT AVG 670 13.4 581 12.1 552 12.0 565 11.5 563 11.5 572 11.4 505 11.0 486 10.8 482 10.7 496 10.3

ASSISTS G Paul, NOR 38 Nash, PHX 52 Rondo, BOS 47 Williams, UTA 43 Kidd, DAL 49 James, CLE 51 B. Davis, LAC 49 Westbrook, OKC 49 Wade, MIA 50 Jennings, MIL 48

AST 424 576 462 419 455 417 387 365 319 301

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AVG 11.2 11.1 9.8 9.7 9.3 8.2 7.9 7.4 6.4 6.3

Steve Stricker reacts as his eagle putt fails to drop on the first green in the third round of the Northern Trust Open in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles Saturday. Stricker settled for birdie on the hole.

D4 Sunday, February 7, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

PREP ROUNDUP

Cougar girls sweep Eastern Oregon trip Bulletin staff report PENDLETON — Mountain View completed a rare Eastern Oregon sweep in girls basketball on Saturday, edging out Pendleton 56-52 one day after topping Hermiston 53-47.

The Cougars, who improved to 5-4 in Intermountain Conference play with the win, hit 21 of 23 free throws to hold off the Buckaroos.

“I don’t recall ever sweeping out here,” said Mountain View coach Steve Riper, who has been with the program for the last 19 years. “It doesn’t happen very often.”

Jordan Wilcox scored 14 points and Kersey Wilcox added 12 to lead the Cougars in scoring. Kylie Durre added 10 points in the balanced Mountain View attack, and Hopper Cashman and Aisa Jordan each scored eight points off the bench.

With the win, the Cougars now sit alone in fourth place in the IMC, behind Madras, Bend High and Hermiston, all of whom are 6-3.

Mountain View is back on the court Tuesday with a home game against The Dalles-Wahtonka at 6 p.m.

In other prep sports Saturday: GIRLS BASKETBALL Hermiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 HERMISTON — Bend High fell behind early and never really threatened to overtake the host Bulldogs, who with the win moved into a threeway tie for the Intermountain Conference lead with the Lava Bears and Madras. Karleigh Taylor led Bend with a game-high 15 points, while Amelia Salazar scored nine points and Kenzi Boehme added seven. The Lava Bears (6-3 IMC, 11-9 overall) play at home Tuesday night against Madras.

North Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69 Prospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 SILVER LAKE — The Cowgirls’ quest for an undefeated run in Mountain Valley League play was kept alive as North Lake routed the visiting Cougars. Amanda Dark led all scorers with 21 points and Keisha Spencer added 20. The Cowgirls (12-0 MVL, 18-1) are at Triad on Friday.

Horizon Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 CC/CCC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 REDMOND — Central Christian/Crook County Christian struggled offensively, scoring only two points in the first quarter. The White Tigers (1-12 Big Sky League, 4-15 overall) found their rhythm in the second period and kept the game close for the remainder but were unable to make up for their slow first quarter. Ashlyn Hanson posted a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds for the home team. The White Tigers return to the court Friday in a home game against Dufur.

Gilchrist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Triad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 KLAMATH FALLS — Kali Smith scored 19 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Grizzlies in the Mountain Valley League win. Kendra Page added three points and 13 rebounds.

Gilchrist (7-5 MVL, 8-9 overall) hosts Paisley on Friday.

BOYS BASKETBALL Hermiston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69 Bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Bend’s Taylor Raterman scored 27 points, but the Lava Bears could not keep pace with the visiting Bulldogs. With junior post Joey Apodaca sidelined because of a knee injury suffered in Friday night’s win over Pendleton, Bend leaned heavily on its perimeter game. The Bears made nine three-point baskets, including three by Raterman, but they made it to the free-throw line only three times. Seth Platsman scored 10 points and Tyler Friesen and Hayden Crook added eight apiece for Bend (4-5 IMC, 6-14 overall), which plays at Madras on Tuesday night.

Horizon Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 CC/CCC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 REDMOND — Central Christian/Crook County Christian battled back to take a 45-44 lead by the end of third quarter only to suffer from foul trouble in the fourth as the game slipped out of its grasp. Jacob Rocco led the White Tigers (2-11 Big Sky League, 8-11 overall) with 15 points and seven rebounds, and Kyle Wood added 13 points and 10 boards in the home loss. Central Christian/Crook County Christian is back in action Friday, hosting Dufur.

North Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Prospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 SILVER LAKE — Andre Borlak scored 16 points and Guillermo Reyes added 10 as the Cowboys improved to 2-10 in Mountain Valley League play. North Lake (6-15 overall) is at Triad on Friday.

WRESTLING Madras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Madras showed up ready to wrestle, accord-

ing to Bend coach Luke Larwin. Madras got off to a solid start with a pin by Trevor Barret in the 189-pound match, and earned victories or forfeits in every match through 125 pounds. Travis Williams (215), Adrian Phillips (285), Trevor Suppah (135), Ryan Brunner (140) and Brandon O’Brien all picked up wins by pin for Madras (5-1 in IMC duals). “We’re wrestling real tough right now,” Madras coach Ron Oliver said. “We have Crook County coming up, and that’ll be a tough test.”

Madras hosts the Cowboys on Wednesday. The Lava Bears managed only three victories in the home dual, with Sean Dougherty (130 pounds) and Tyler Bergrud (152) earning wins for Bend, along with a forfeit. Bend drops to 2-4 in IMC duals and is set to host Crook County on Tuesday.

Cougars place three wrestlers at tournament CLACKAMAS — Jake McDonald of Mountain View earned a third-place result in the 103-pound weight class and Dimitri Dillard (140 pounds) took fourth at the Bill Geister Tournament. Sandy won the 16-team event with 246 points, Mountain View (57 points) finished 10th.

C.O. teams struggle in IMC duals PRINEVILLE — Crook County and Summit both posted Intermountain Conference losses in a four-dual league event. The Storm fell to Hermiston (75-6) and Pendleton (63-12), while Crook County was defeated by the Bulldogs 63-11. No score for the day’s Pendleton-Crook County match was reported. Sophomore Ryan Leiphart recorded Summit’s lone win over Hermiston, a second-period pin over Pedro Velasquez in the 125-pound match. Trevor Wilson (145 pounds) and McKennan Buckner (103) notched Crook County’s wins over the three-time defending state champions. Eric Thompson (135) and Sean Seefeldt (152) both scored wins for the Storm in the Pendleton dual.

TRACK & FIELD Summit athletes excel in Idaho NAMPA, Idaho — Summit’s Kellie Schueler added another win to her resume after placing first in the women’s 200-meter race of the college/ open division at the United Heritage Invitational.

The Storm’s Katie Low managed a 4-foot-8-inch effort in the high jump, which was good enough for fourth place in the high school girls competition. On the boys side, Dion Roccasalva won the high school triple jump event with a leap of 41 feet, 1 1⁄2 inches and placed fourth in the long jump. Storm teammate Brett Campbell took second in the prep 60-meter hurdles, clocking in at 8.63 seconds. Geoff Zath, running in the college division of the 400-meter race, took fifth with a time of 52.69. The two-day, seven-team indoor meet allowed Summit track and field athletes to test their preseason fitness and progress before travelling to Pocatello, Idaho, where they will compete in the Simplot Games on Feb. 18 and 19.

ALPINE SKIING Bend boys, girls win at Bachelor MOUNT BACHELOR — The Bend boys ski team claimed a surprising win at the Central Oregon Ski League alpine meet on Cliffhanger run, sliding past a previously undefeated Summit boys squad. The Bend girls team was also champion, making for a dual Lava Bear win. Summit took second place in both the boys and girls competitions, and the International School of the Cascades grabbed third for the boys. Jordan DeJarnett of Bend High was the boys champion with a combined run time of 2 minutes, 6.16 seconds, and was followed by Jordan Schiemer of Summit less than a second later in 2:06.96. The Lava Bears’ Armand Beccari placed third in 2:09.27. On the girls side, Ciara Timm of Bend High dominated the races, winning with a combined run time of 2:10.7, nearly four seconds ahead of the next finisher, Kate Puddy of Mountain View in 2:14.61.

Kori Coggin carved her way to third less than a second later in 2:14.97.

NORDIC SKIING Mountain View boys and girls tops in finale CHEMULT — Chase Nachtmann raced to anther Oregon Interscholastic Ski Racing Association Southern League first-place finish for Mountain View, pacing the Cougars with a time of 20 minutes, 16 seconds in the 5,000-meter individual classic race at the Walt Haring Sno-park. The Cougs swept the top three spots as Ian Neubauer finished four seconds off the winning time and Jared Nielsen took third in 20:26. On the girls side, South Eugene’s Anna Persmark set the fastest time of the day, winning in 22:49. Mountain View’s Mikhaila Thornton finished second in 24:50. Both the Cougars boys and girls teams won the Southern League regular-season finale and secured the overall series wins. Nachtmann also won the cumulative Southern League individual standings with 176 points. Margie Gillespie of South Eugene took the top girls spot with 227 points.

O LY M P I C S

IOC assesses weather, doping, ethics cases The Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — With one eye on the weather, the IOC opens a series of meetings today to examine the last-minute preparations for the Vancouver Winter Games and deal with doping and ethics cases and future Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee executive board’s two-day meeting comes amid unseasonably warm conditions that have led to special contingency measures to protect the snow at the snowboard and freestyle skiing venue at nearby Cypress Mountain.

The IOC is monitoring the weather situation but remains

confident the games, which open next Friday, won’t suffer.

“We are in a world with uncertain meteorology — we have to adapt to it,” IOC president Jacques Rogge said recently. “There is a permanent contingency planning for the entire duration of the games. If there would be too much snow or not enough snow, we will act on that.”

John Furlong, leader of Vancouver organizing committee VANOC, will report on the weather contingencies and other planning issues to the IOC board on Monday. He’ll get another chance to deliver a progress update to the full

IOC session, which meets from Wednesday through Friday.

Away from Vancouver matters, the IOC board will also examine a new U.S. doping case that could lead to the stripping of gold medals from the women’s 4x400 relay team at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Crystal Cox, who ran in the preliminaries, admitted to using anabolic steroids and accepted a four-year suspension and disqualification of her results from 2001 to 2004, according to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

The IOC is expected to set up a disciplinary commission on the case.

Jess Reed / The Bulletin

Mountain View senior Seth Brent (32) shoots over Pendleton’s defense during Saturday afternoon’s game in Bend. Brent finished the game with 14 points in a 67-49 IMC victory.

Cougars Continued from D1 “Pendleton came out ready to play and really jumped on us, making it 8-0 to begin the game,” said Craig Reid, whose team is on a four-game winning streak. “We got it together and finished strong.”

Mountain View rallied to tie the league contest 1515 by the end of the first quarter before taking a 33-

27 lead into the half. The Cougars, who shot 52 percent from the field on Saturday, outscored the Bucks 34-22 in the second half.

While Pendleton outrebounded Mountain View 20-19 during the game, the Cougars scored 22 points off 22 Buck turnovers. Additionally, Mountain View’s defense held Pendleton to just 31-percent shooting from the floor.

Mountain View continues league play on Tuesday with a road game at The Dalles-Wahtonka.

PREP SCOREBOARD WRESTLING Saturday’s results CLASS 5A ——— MADRAS 57, BEND 16 At Bend High 103 — Andrew Fine, M, wins by forfeit. 112 — Kyle Macias, M, def. Evan Chinadle, B, 16-14. 119 — Lane McDonald, M, wins by forfeit. 125 — Miguel Vasquez, M, def. Cody Bullard, B, 4-3. 130 — Sean Dougherty, B, def. Triston Boise, M, 14-3.

135 — Trevor Suppah, M, pins Mike Huynh, B, :53. 140 — Ryan Brunner, M, pins Andreas Golden, B, :42. 145 — Justin Brown, M, def. Kevin Baker, B, 4-1. 152 — Tyler Bergurd, B, pins Rabe Clements, M, 5:23. 160 — Gavin Gertes, B, wins by forfeit.

171 — Brandon O’Brien, M, pins Kenny Dailey, B, 1:46. 189 — Trevor Barret, M, pins Derek Hubler, B, :42. 215 — Travis Williams, M, pins Liam Brown, B, 3:50. 285 — Adrian Phillips, M, pins Nic Russell, B, 1:17.

BASKETBALL Boys Saturday’s results ——— CLASS 6A CENTRAL VALLEY CONFERENCE Standings W L Ov’ll McKay 8 0 16-2 Sprague 6 2 12-6 Redmond 4 3 8-11 South Salem 4 3 6-11 North Salem 2 6 9-9 McNary 2 6 5-12 West Salem 1 7 3-14 ——— CLASS 5A INTERMOUNTAIN CONFERENCE Standings W L Ov’ll Mountain View 8 1 18-1 The Dalles-Wahtonka 7 2 14-5 Pendleton 7 3 15-4 Summit 5 4 9-11 Bend 4 5 6-14 Madras 4 5 11-8 Hermiston 2 6 8-10 Crook County 0 9 0-18 ——— PENDLETON (49) — Jones 17, Farley 8, Simpson 8, Polhamas 6, Ernst 5, Davis 3, Hartley 2. Totals 22 9-15 49.

MOUNTAIN VIEW (67) — Isaiah Mitchell 18, Claar 15, Brent 14, Reid 11, Zapata 5, Helms 2, Bent 2. Totals 36 6-9 67.

Pendleton 15 12 14 8 — 49 Mountain View 15 18 19 15 — 67 Three-point goals — Pendleton: Jones 3, David; Mountain View: Mitchell 4, Claar 3, Brent 2, Reid, Zapata.

——— HERMISTON (69) — Kurt Simmons 18, Burns 11, Al. Boedigheimer 10, Au. Boedigheimer 9, Smith 9, Ortiz 8, Phillips 4, Ross, Parson, DeLaCruz, Rodriguez, C. Boedigheimer. Totals 28 8-10 69.

BEND (55) — Taylor Raterman 27, Platsman 10, Friesen 8, Crook 8, Kau 2, Torkelson, Grim. Totals 22 2-3 55.

Hermiston 16 19 12 22 — 69 Bend 13 9 10 23 — 55 Three-point goals — Hermiston: Simmons 4, Smith; Bend: Raterman 3, Platsman 2, Crook 2, Friesen 2.

——— CLASS 4A SKY-EM LEAGUE Standings W L Ov’ll Marist 8 1 12-9 Elmira 7 1 15-4

Pleasant Hill Sisters Junction City Cottage Grove La Pine

5 5 3 2 0

3 4 6 6 9

9-9 10-10 4-15 11-8 7-14

——— CLASS 1A BIG SKY LEAGUE HORIZON CHRISTIAN (59) — Ramon Martinez 24, Boyden 14, Anderson 6, Anthony 6, Stenberg 5, Lingel 4, Petitt 2. Totals 23 11-21 59.

CC/CCC (54) — Jacob Rocco 15, K.Wood 13, Uptain 11, C. Wood 8, Belli 4, Staples 3. Totals 20 13-17 54.

Horizon 19 15 10 13 — 59 CC/CCC 17 9 19 9 — 54 Three-point goals — Horizon: Martinez 2; CC/CCC: Rocco.

MOUNTAIN VALLEY LEAGUE Triad 60, Gilchrist 26

Girls Saturday’s results ——— CLASS 6A CENTRAL VALLEY CONFERENCE Standings W L Ov’ll McNary 8 0 13-5 West Salem 6 2 13-4 South Salem 5 2 11-6 Sprague 4 4 5-13 Redmond 3 4 11-9 North Salem 1 7 3-15 McKay 0 8 4-14 ——— CLASS 5A INTERMOUNTAIN CONFERENCE Standings W L Ov’ll Bend 6 3 11-9 Madras 6 3 14-5 Hermiston 6 3 12-4 Mountain View 5 4 10-8 Summit 4 5 9-10 The Dalles-Wahtonka 4 5 10-10 Pendleton 3 6 10-8 Crook County 2 7 6-10 ——— MOUNTAIN VIEW (56) — Jordan Wilcox 14, K. Wilcox 12, Durre 10, Jordan 8, Cashman 8, Heacock 2, Seevers 2, Corbett.

Totals 16 21-23 56.

PENDLETON (52) — Kristen VanCleave 20, Arroyo 17, Demineau 8, Simpson 4, McKay 3, Gregerson. Totals 18 1-22 52.

Mountain View 7 13 13 23 — 56 Pendleton 12 6 12 22 — 52 Three-point goals — Mountain View: J. Wilcox 2; Durre; Pendleton: Arroyo 4.

——— BEND (36) — Karleigh Taylor 15, Salazar 9, Boehme 7, Penington 3, McConnell 2, Boileau, J. Whitehurst, E. Whitehurst, Tolentino. Totals 11 12-17 36.

HERMISTON (45) — Kathryn Barnitz 14, Moss 10, Schmidt 10, Walchli 6, Waters 3, Blankenship 2, Jones, Barnett. Totals 13 16-19 45.

Bend 4 6 9 17 — 36 Hermiston 12 8 8 17 — 45 Three-point goals — Bend: Penington, Boehme; Hermiston: Barnitz 2, Moss.

——— CLASS 4A SKY-EM LEAGUE Standings W L Ov’ll Cottage Grove 7 1 17-2 Marist 7 2 13-8 Junction City 6 3 12-7 Sisters 5 4 9-12

La Pine Elmira Pleasant Hill

4 1 0

5 7 8

13-8 4-15 0-16

——— CLASS 1A BIG SKY LEAGUE HORIZON CHRISTIAN (39) — Anna Jenson 14, Winkle 2, Burck 2, Aldrich 2, Taylor 9, Berthold 9, Figueroa 1. Totals 15 9-24 39.

CC/CCC (29) — Ashlyn Hanson 10, P. Antonsen 6, Simpson 5, Duke 2, B. Antonsen 2, Lyle 2, Hargreaves 2. Totals 12 512 29.

Horizon 8 13 6 12 — 39 CC/CCC 2 11 5 11 — 29 Three-point goals — none.

NORDIC SKIING Boys Saturday’s results OREGON INTERSCHOLASTIC SKI RACING ASSOCIATION At Walt Haring Sno-park, Chemult 5000 meter individual classic Team Scores — Mountain View 6, South Eugene 19, Ashland 30, Northwest Youth Corps Outdoor School 43.

Individual results, Top-10 only 1, Chase Nachtmann, MV, 20:16. 2, Ian Neubauer, MV, 20:20.

3, Jared Nielsen, MV, 20:26. 4, Sean Andresen, SE, 20:57. 5, Jordan Zettle, MV, 21:00. 6, Mckenna Hand, MV, 21:48. 7 (tie), Trevor Merrifield, SE, 22:27; Ryan Rudnick, MV, 22:27. 9, Jacob Robinson, MV, 23:06. 10, Nolan King, MV, 23:21.

Final league standings 1, Mountain View 40. 2, South Eugene 30. 3, Ashland 20. 4, Northwest Youth Corps Outdoor School 10.

Girls Saturday’s results OREGON INTERSCHOLASTIC SKI RACING ASSOCIATION At Walt Haring Sno-park, Chemult 5000 meter individual classic Team Scores — Mountain View 11, South Eugene 11, Ashland 36, Summit 49.

Individual results, Top-10 only 1, Anna Persmark, SE, 22:49. 2, Mikhaila Thornton, MV, 24:50. 3, Margie Gillespie, SE, 24:55. 4, Hayati Wolfenden, MV, 25:16. 5, Jaime Faulkner, MV, 25;25. 6, Kaitlyn Wright, MV, 25:36. 7, Lexi McAllister, SE, 25:43. 8, Claire Ramey, SE, 25:47.

9, Taylor Bundy, MV, 26:08. 10, Helen Cutting, NE, 26:47.

Final league standings 1, Mountain View 38. 2, South Eugene 32. 3, Ashland 20. 4, Summit 10.

ALPINE SKIING Saturday’s top-10 results at Mount Bachelor Cliffhanger Run CENTRAL OREGON SKI LEAGUE ——— BOYS Combined times: 1. Jordan DeJarnett, B, 2 minutes, 6.16 seconds. 2. Jordan Schiemer, Sum, 2:06.96. 3. Armand Beccari, B, 2:09.27. 4. Jared Doolan, B, 2:09.52. 5. Ian Bristow, MV, 2:09.56.

6. Doug Lyons, Sum, 2:10.92. 7. Luke Welborn, Sum, 2:11.28. 8.

Tucker Shannon, Sum, 2:16.77. 9. Landon Miller, ISC, 2:16.86.

10. Brian Evans, Sum, 2:16.97.

Team results 1. Bend, 2. Summit, 3. International School of the Cascades, 4. Sisters.

GIRLS Combined times: 1. Ciara Timm, B, 2 minutes, 10.7 seconds.

2. Kate Puddy, MTV, 2:14.61. 3. Kori Coggin, B, 2:14.97. 4.

Angelina Mayer, Sum, 2:16. 5. Allie Calande, B, 2:18.36. 6. Kiki Nakamura-Koyama, B, 2:19.22. 7. Jordan Caine, Sum, 2:20.1. 8.

Lucie Pepper, Sum, 2:21.61. 9. Labaere Lien, Sum, 2:22.55. 10.

Zoe Zulauf, Sum, 2:23.12.

C OL L EGE B A SK ET BA L L

THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 7, 2010 D5

COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

No. 7 Georgetown upsets No. 2 Villanova The Associated Press WASHINGTON — One week earlier, President Barack Obama was in attendance. On Saturday, the Georgetown Hoyas further displayed their drawing power by attracting more than 10,000 fans on a day when a fierce snowstorm blanketed the nation’s capital.

Those who trudged through an estimated 2 feet of snow were rewarded with a game they won’t soon forget.

Austin Freeman scored 25 points, Jason Clark had 24, and Georgetown forced 16 first-half turnovers in a 10390 victory that ended No. 2 Villanova’s 11-game winning streak and ruined the Wildcats’ perfect Big East record.

The Hoyas (17-5, 7-4) led by as many as 23 points in the first half and 50-31 at halftime. Villanova (20-2, 9-1) cut the margin to 10 but never threatened to complete the comeback.

“That was not one of our better performances, but you’ve got to give Georgetown most of the credit. They jumped on us,” Wildcats coach Jay Wright said. “I think just getting down like that early here and playing that team from behind is really difficult to do.”

Villanova scored 59 points in the second half, but their bid to erase the deficit was blunted by Georgetown’s success at the foul line. The Hoyas finished 39 of 50, and more than half of their second-half points were the result of free throws.

“When you’re trying to speed the game up, trying to go for the ball and taking risks out there, you’re going to get called for fouls,” Wildcats guard Scottie Reynolds said.

Georgetown’s parade to the foul line was led by Greg Monroe, who went 11 of 14 and scored 19 points and had eight rebounds and six assists. Villanova scored only 17 points on 23 free throws.

Reynolds and Corey Fisher each scored 24 points for the Wildcats, whose winning streak included an 8277 victory over Georgetown on Jan. 17.

Villanova’s other loss was to Temple on Dec. 13.

“Just because we lost today, nothing changes,” Reynolds said. “We’ll do what we have to do to be the best team at the end of the season.”

Reynolds moved into fifth place on the school scoring list and Fisher become the 52nd player in Villanova history to reach 1,000 points.

Despite the intense snow outside, the crowd at Verizon Center was 10,387.

Obama showed up for the Hoyas’ win over Duke seven days earlier. He prob-

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Villanova’s Scottie Reynolds, left, battles for the loose ball against Georgetown’s Greg Monroe, right, during the second half of Saturday’s college basketball game in Washington. Georgetown won 103-90. ably went through less difficulty to get to the arena than did the Georgetown students, several of whom walked 3 miles from campus to help fill the seats behind both baselines.

In other games on Saturday: No. 1 Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 LAWRENCE, Kan. — Cole Aldrich scored six points during a 16-1 run and Kansas used a big second half to beat Nebraska and stretch its home winning streak to 55.

No. 4 Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 LSU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 BATON ROUGE, La. — Freshman

DeMarcus Cousins had 19 points and 13 rebounds for his sixth consecutive double-double for Kentucky.

No. 5 Michigan State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Demetri McCamey had 22 points and 11 assists to lead Illinois to an upset of Michigan State, sending the Spartans to another loss without Kalin Lucas.

No. 6 West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 St. John’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 NEW YORK — Da’Sean Butler scored a season-high 33 points, hitting all seven three-point attempts, and West Virginia rallied for the victory.

Oklahoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 No. 9 Texas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 NORMAN, Okla. — Tommy MasonGriffin scored 24 points for Oklahoma and Cade Davis added 20 points and 10 rebounds for the second double-double of his career.

No. 10 Duke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Boston College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 BOSTON — Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith scored 21 points apiece to lead Duke.

No. 10 Kansas State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Iowa State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 AMES, Iowa — Denis Clemente scored a season-high 30 points, including six three-pointers, and Kansas State won its fourth straight road game.

UNLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 No. 12 BYU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 LAS VEGAS — Junior guard Tre’Von Willis had a career-high 33 points to lead UNLV into a first-place tie with BYU in the Mountain West Conference.

No. 14 Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Wayne Chism scored a career-high 30 points as Tennessee routed South Carolina.

No. 15 New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 San Diego State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Darington Hobson scored eight of his 29 points in overtime, including two free throws with 2.7 seconds remaining, to lift New Mexico to a thrilling victory over San Diego State.

No. 16 Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Michigan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jason Bohannon scored 18 points to lead Wisconsin.

Trevon Hughes added 14 points and Jordan Taylor had 13 for the Badgers (18-5, 8-3 Big Ten).

No. 17 Gonzaga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Matt Bouldin scored 19 points and Gonzaga pulled away at the end, closing the game with an 8-1 run.

Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 No. 18 Vanderbilt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ATHENS, Ga. — Travis Leslie scored 13 of his 17 points in the second half and Georgia rallied to beat Vanderbilt.

Richmond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 No. 19 Temple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 RICHMOND, Va. — Kevin Anderson scored 16 of his 29 points in a blistering first half for Richmond.

Texas A&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 No. 20 Baylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Bryan Davis scored 22 points and B.J. Holmes

hit three late three-pointers to lead Texas A&M. No. 21 Georgia Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 North Carolina State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 ATLANTA — Zachery Peacock scored 22 points and freshman Derrick Favors added 16 as Georgia Tech held off North Carolina State.

No. 22 Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Seton Hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 PITTSBURGH — Gilbert Brown bounced back from a scoreless game with 23 points and Pittsburgh nearly shut out Seton Hall scoring leader Jeremy Hazell in a rout that avenged a loss to the Pirates less than two weeks ago.

No. 23 Butler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Wright State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 INDIANAPOLIS — Willie Veasley had a career-high 19 points, leading Butler past Wright State for its 12th straight win.

No. 24 Northern Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Southern Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Adam Koch scored 11 consecutive points for Northern Iowa down the stretch and the Panthers rallied to beat Southern Illinois.

No. 25 Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 OXFORD, Miss. — Chris Warren scored 21 points to help Mississippi come back from 19 points down to beat Alabama.

California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 UCLA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 LOS ANGELES — Theo Robertson and Patrick Christopher scored 20 points each, helping California overcome UCLA’s early dominance to earn the victory and retain at least a share of first place in the Pac-10 standings.

Washington State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 PULLMAN, Wash. — DeAngelo Casto scored 19 points and blocked three shots as Washington State beat Arizona, knocking the Wildcats out of a tie for first place in the Pac-10.

USC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Stanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 LOS ANGELES — USC had the lategame heroics this time against Stanford, avenging an earlier one-point road loss by scoring the game’s final six points.

Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Arizona State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 SEATTLE — Isaiah Thomas responded from being benched the game before to score 17 points, Quincy Pondexter added 17 and resurgent Washington cruised to a victory over Arizona State.

OSU Continued from D1 The 20-point win on Saturday marked the widest margin of victory for Oregon State in the series since a 94-51 Beavers win in Corvallis in 1982.

Jared Cunningham and Calvin Haynes added 11 points and four assists each for Oregon State.

Malcolm Armstead and Matt Humphrey had 10 points apiece for Oregon (12-10, 4-6).

After leading 32-25 at halftime, Oregon State outscored Oregon 30-17 in the second half.

Oregon scored the first four points of the second half, but Oregon State answered with the next eight.

Oregon State led 40-29 at that point, and Oregon would get no closer than eight the rest of the way.

The Beavers later scored 10 straight to go up 59-34 for their biggest lead of the game.

After scoring 16 points in the first half, Johnson didn’t score again until 7:20 was left. But by then, the Beavers were ahead 51-34.

Johnson, who started for the first time since Nov. 21, had a first half that included four three-pointers.

“Omari has had that in him all season,” said Robinson, who has been looking for a player at the power forward position to contribute consistent scoring. “At the beginning of the season, I said he was the guy who was practicing the best.”

Johnson, a 6-9 forward who scored in double figures for just the third time this season, said he was waiting to have a breakout game.

“I was trying to see when it was going to come, and it came at the right time,” he said. “My teammates were just finding me, I was trying to get open. Once I hit one, I felt like I could hit another.”

Oregon struggled to find an offensive rhythm against Oregon State’s 1-3-1 zone defense.

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“I was trying to see when it was going to come, and it came at the right time.

My teammates were just finding me, I was trying to get open. Once I hit one, I felt like I could hit another.”

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The Ducks shot 14 of 47 (29.8 percent) from the field Saturday, including two of 17 from threepoint range.

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D6 Sunday, February 7, 2010 • THE BULLETIN

S U PER B OW L

Super Continued from D1 “What has been exciting for me since I have lived there, it’s always been a sports town, but it’s really turned into a football town.

That is the kind of place you want to play football.”

New Orleans always has been a football town, even when the Saints were the Aints — back in the days Archie Manning led the team and fans wore paper bags on their heads. But that four-decade love affair morphed into something soulful when the Saints inspired a city in ruin in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

“It’s important for not only the people in New Orleans, but I think the people around the country because you do understand how much it means to that community and what they’ve been through,” Brees says. “Our success as a team over the last four years, but especially this year, has been tremendous just in regards to giving so many of the members of that community hope and lifting their spirits.

“There is still a lot of work to be done there in regards to the rebuilding and the recovery postKatrina. There are still a lot of people in some pretty dire straits.

For us to be able to have the success we’re having, it just does so much for that community as far as bringing everyone together.

There’s a bond that we have with our fans — between our organization and our fans — that’s truly special.”

The Saints (15-3) led the league in scoring with 510 points. If Colts All-Pro defensive end Dwight Freeney and his 13½ sacks can’t go on his damaged right ankle, Brees, Reggie Bush, Marques Colston and company might

Powell Continued from D1 “I was expecting to go back and find everything ruined,” Powell, 31, recalled last week from the Saints’ offices in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie.

“But right where I was at, there was really very little damage — all it took was a wet-vac …

I was real lucky.”

Lucky, indeed. Because most of the city around him was devastated by the storm and the flooding that ensued. Katrina claimed more than 1,800 lives and caused billions of dollars of property damage. Even the Louisiana Superdome, the 70,000seat home of the Saints, suffered extensive harm.

Inside, the Superdome served as a shelter for thousands upon thousands of hurricane refugees. Outside, Katrina’s vicious winds literally peeled away massive sections of the dome’s exterior cover. That left gaping holes in the roof, and it left the Saints among the myriad homeless and displaced in and around New Orleans.

The team scrambled to move its headquarters to safe haven some 550 miles west to San Antonio, whose Alamodome would serve as the Saints’ home field for three games in the 2005 regular season. The Saints would also play four “home” games at LSU’s Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La., and one as the designated home team against the New York Giants at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Legions of loyal Saints fans turned to their vagabond team for hope and reassurance in a time of great despair. But the Saints only added to the gloom: They finished with a record of 3-13 for the 2005 season, after which head coach Jim Haslett was relieved of his duties.

“Obviously, 3-13 was not very good,” Powell reflected. “That, on top of what had happened to the people of New Orleans, and the uncertainty of whether their football team could even come back to New Orleans — those were some real blows for the city.”

Home in the Dome If you follow the NFL at all, you know that fortunes have changed dramatically for the New Orleans Saints since Katrina. After the nightmare 2005 season, the Saints hired promising young Dallas Cowboys assistant Sean Payton as their new head coach. They secured a quarterback for the future with the free-agent signing of Drew Brees. They used their No. 2 overall pick in the draft to select Heisman Trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush.

And they were back in a repaired and renovated Superdome for the 2006 season. More than 70,000 devoted fans welcomed the Saints back in their home opener.

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Freeney sits again,Wayne back at Indy workout

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Super-sized offenses showcased Peyton Manning and the Colts will square off with Drew Brees and the Saints in what has all the makings of a high-scoring Super Bowl.

Today • 3:25 p.m. PST • CBS Regular-season • postseason stats

OFFENSE Total yards (avg.): 363.1 Passing 282.2

Rushing 80.9

Postseason: 368.0 296.5

71.5

Postseason: 337.5 218.0

Penalty 29

Rushing 115

First downs (339) Rushing 69

Postseason (49) 35

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Powell, then in his second year with New Orleans, remembered the Saints’ return to a city still recovering from a horrific natural disaster and badly in need of an emotional boost.

“When we came back, the first home game was against Atlanta, on Monday Night Football,” said Powell, recalling what he witnessed that night from the scouts’ booth in the Superdome press box. “When I remember that game … man, I still get goose bumps.”

Not long after a raucous pregame show featuring the music of superstar rock groups U2 and Green Day, the Saints blocked a Falcons punt and recovered it for a touchdown. That sent the crowd into a frenzy that did not subside until well after New Orleans put the final touches on a 23-3 victory.

“The fans … man, it was unbelievable,” said Powell. “Just an amazing experience.

“And after what New Orleans and those people had been through,” he added, “it was like, ‘OK, this city’s really gonna be OK.’ ”

Part of the recovery The role the Saints have played in the emotional rehabilitation of a ravaged New Orleans cannot be underestimated, according to Powell.

“It’s hard to put into words what the team means to this city,” Powell said. “And the support this city has for the team … it’s pretty unreal.”

The rebuilding of New Orleans and the recovery of its residents have coincided with the revival of the Saints. After reaching the NFC Championship Game for the first time ever at the end of the 2006 campaign — the franchise’s 40th season — the Saints slipped to 7-9 in 2007. But they were 8-8 in 2008, and in 2009 they won their first 13 games of the regular season en route to their very first Super Bowl.

Two weeks ago, in the biggest home game in franchise history, the Saints rocked the Superdome again when they beat the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 on Garrett Hartley’s 40-yard overtime field goal to claim their first NFC title.

Today, they take on the AFC Champion Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, and all of New Orleans will be there — at least in spirit.

“You can just feel it down here,” said Powell. “Everyone’s on cloud nine right now.”

Since Katrina, things have gotten a whole lot better for Ryan Powell, too. He is married now, and he and his wife, Miranda, have a 3-year-old daughter named Nahia. Their second child is due in July.

And Powell has moved up in the Saints organization. After spending his first two years in New Orleans as the team’s combine scout — evaluating college players for the Saints and contributing reports to the NFL Scouting Combine — he was

the last two games. Indianapolis was 14-0 and perhaps headed for a 15th victory when Manning and other starters were removed in the third quarter against the Jets. New York rallied to win, and the backups lost at Buffalo in the season finale.

Didn’t matter much, did it?

They both got here, albeit in different manners. The Colts handled the Ravens and Jets pretty easily. The Saints, following a romp past Arizona, needed several mistakes by Minnesota — including Brett Favre throwing an interception in the final seconds — before finally erasing that Super Bowl void in an overtime victory.

So will it be Mardi Gras in Miami or Peyton’s place?

“I feel like both teams have gotten to this point because of the success of the teams,” Man-

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Yards allowed (avg.): 339.2 Passing Rushing 212.7 126.5

promoted in 2007 to pro scout, the position he holds today.

As a pro scout, Powell’s responsibilities include evaluating free agents from around the NFL and other pro leagues. He also keeps an eye on the NFL waiver wire, looking for possible gems among the league’s discards.

“I’m responsible for grading our guys (in the Saints organization) in the preseason,” he said. “And I’m watching guys who are maybe on the bubble with other teams — guys who were late-round draft picks, or rookie free agents.

“We always have a feel for who’s out there so that when, during the season, we get guys hurt, or we might need to upgrade or need a backup at a particular position, we know who we should bring in to work out.”

Once the regular season begins, Powell’s primary role is that of advance scout.

“I watch a team the week before we play them and give my report to our coaches,” he explained. “I was on the road most weekends this season. I definitely rack up the frequent-flier miles.”

From Bend to the NFL Powell never played in the NFL — or even came close. (“I noticed there were no 5-foot-9, 200-pound linebackers playing pro football,” he said in 2005.)

But his football background is considerable.

He grew up in Bend as part of a football family, the middle of three sons of Clyde Powell, longtime football coach at Mountain View High School. Ryan Powell was an all-Intermountain Conference linebacker at Mountain View and went on to play small-college ball at Linfield in McMinnville. During college, he got his first taste of the NFL when he spent three summers as a general assistant with the Seattle Seahawks.

Powell returned to Linfield as an assistant coach and was with the Wildcat team that won the NCAA Division III national championship in 2004. Earlier that year he spent the summer with the Saints as a trainingcamp intern, a foot-in-the-door job that eventually landed him in the team’s scouting booth on a full-time basis.

Two weeks ago, Powell was in a booth at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis to scout the AFC Championship game, in which quarterback Peyton Manning led the Colts to a 30-17 win over the New York Jets.

Later today, he will be in a booth at Miami’s Sun Life Stadium to watch his Saints battle the Colts in the Super Bowl. He will be in the company of Saints brass such as Mickey Loomis, the team’s executive vice president and general manager, and Ryan Pace, the club’s director of pro player personnel.

Powell said he expects to be observing less as a scout today

26.0

5

235.6

122.2

284.0 SCORING (PPG) Points for

19.2

31.9

Postseason 25.0 10.0

133.0

Pts. allowed 21.3

Postseason 38.0 21.0 PLAY SELECTION (PCT.) Reg. season Postseason Pass Rush Pass Rush

37.3 62.7

23

86.5

Pts. allowed

Reg. season Pass Rush

Penalty 18

Postseason: 417.0

242.5

Points for

Passing 215

DEFENSE Yards allowed (avg.): 357.8 Passing Rushing

Postseason: 329.0

light up the Miami night with touchdowns.

So could the Colts (16-2) with their deep receiving corps and the incomparable Manning. Surpassing the 75 points in the 1995 Super Bowl (San Francisco 49, San Diego 26) is not out of the question. Doing it by halftime isn’t totally absurd.

When the Colts won their only championship representing Indy, Tony Dungy was the coach. Now it’s his hand-picked successor, Jim Caldwell, and only two rookie coaches have ever won the Super Bowl. One of them, Don McCafferty, did it for the Baltimore Colts in 1971, the first title game after the AFL-NFL merger.

The Saints and Colts approached the unbeaten threshold in December. New Orleans was 13-0, fell at home to Dallas, then rested many regulars in losing

The Associated Press 119.5

Postseason (42)

Mark Humphrey / The Associated Press

New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush (25) races teammates to the sideline as players warm up during football practice in Sun Life Stadium on Saturday in Miami. The Saints play the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV today.

Rushing 131.6

First downs (348)

Passing 241

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Total yards (avg.): 403.8 Passing 272.2

36.0 64.0

Postseason Pass Rush

45.3 54.7

47.0 53.0

SOURCES: National Football League; STATS LLC

ning says. “Certainly if you look at our regular season and playoff schedule it has been a team season. Different guys have stepped up along the way, making critical plays at critical times.

“That is how I feel this game is

and more as a fan.

“My responsibility — my advance work on the Colts — is done,” he said.

And whether the Saints win or lose today, Powell will do all he can to savor the Super Bowl experience.

“There are a lot of guys who do this job,” he observed, “who never get here.”

No rest for the weary Unlike the players, who will take some time off after the Super Bowl before gearing up for next season, Powell — like scouts with the NFL’s other 31 teams — will be back at work with barely a break.

“Once the season’s over, I’ll kind of throttle back a little bit,” Powell said. “Maybe work six days a week, instead of seven.”

Preparations will begin almost immediately for the NFL scouting combine later this month, when the country’s top college players will be evaluated during a week of workouts in Indianapolis.

The draft takes place in April.

Players return for OTAs (organized team activities) and minicamps, then training camp begins in late July. August is flush with preseason games, then the regular season kicks off in September. And if all goes well, the season extends into January for the playoffs — or into February, for the Super Bowl.

“It’s really an endless pro-

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going to turn out. It will be somebody stepping up along the way, in a critical situation, making a play and you never know just who it might be.”

Could be a Who Dat. Or a Hoosier.

cess,” Powell said of his job as an NFL scout. “It’s a grind, but I’m not complaining. I do realize how lucky I am.

“I get to watch football for a

DAVIE, Fla. — Dwight Freeney watched the Colts’ final Super Bowl practice from a golf cart, and it’s still uncertain whether he will play in today’s Super Bowl.

The All-Pro defensive end hasn’t practiced since tearing a ligament in his right ankle late in the AFC title game Jan. 24. Saturday’s brief walkthrough was no different.

Indianapolis coach Jim Caldwell said Freeney had improved from Friday to Saturday but declined to say whether the star would play against the Saints.

Freeney has played through pain before this season. He didn’t miss a game after straining a quadriceps in late September, an injury that reportedly should have kept him out for up to a month.

Some have speculated Freeney may move from the right side to the left so he can push off his good ankle, but Freeney said Thursday a switch to the opposite side wouldn’t make much difference.

Freeney’s ankle was not wrapped and he did not receive treatment during the 40-minute walkthrough.

Star receiver Reggie Wayne also seemed to ease concerns about his possible absence today, returning to practice one day after aggravating a season-long right knee injury. Wayne left Friday’s practice 20 minutes early, and Caldwell sounded confident that Wayne would play today.

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Breaking down Super Bowl XLIV New Orleans (15-3) vs. Indianapolis (16-2) • When: Today, 3:25 p.m. PST • TV: CBS

Key players for the Colts

Key players for the Saints

OFFENSE

OFFENSE

• Dallas Clark, TE (44), 6-3, 252, 7th season, Iowa: Needs 74 yards receiving to pass Shannon Sharpe (814) and Keith Jackson (834) for most by tight end in postseason history ... First-round pick in 2003 who made first All-Pro team this season with 100 catches for 1,106 yards and 10 TDs ... Joined Tony Gonzalez as only TEs with 100 receptions in a season ... A favorite target on third down.

Five things to watch

• Reggie Wayne, WR (87), 6-0, 198, 9th season, Miami: Consistent threat who had sixth straight 1,000-yard season, making 100 catches for 1,264 yards and 10 scores ... Can run every pattern and will beat you deep ... Didn’t do much in AFC title game against Darrelle Revis, but Saints have no cover guys like Revis ... In 2007 Super Bowl, had 53-yard TD against Bears ... Born in New Orleans.

1. How is Freeney’s ankle?

The most buzzed-about body part in South Florida this week has been Indianapolis defensive end Dwight Freeney’s ankle, which he sprained badly in the AFC championship game.

Even with the bye week, Freeney will be questionable for the game and no one really knows if he will play, and if he does, how much the injury will affect his ability to get to Drew Brees.

And with Brees’ efficiency and the potential for big plays, disrupting Brees’ flow by getting into the pocket will be very important for the Colts’ defense.

• Jeff Saturday, C (63), 6-2, 295, 11th season, North Carolina: One of the league’s best centers, started all 16 games as leader of offensive line ... Twotime All-Pro, equally adept at run and pass blocking ... Signed as free agent in 1999 after Ravens cut him in 1998 ... Became starter in 2000, has played in every game in eight of his seasons.

• Peyton Manning, QB (18), 6-5, 230, 12th season, Tennessee: Only four-time MVP in NFL history ... Led Colts to 2006 championship, winning Super Bowl in Miami and game’s MVP award ... A native of New Orleans whose father, Archie, was Saints’ first star ... Trying to become first reigning MVP to win Super Bowl since Kurt Warner in 1999 ... Set NFL record for 300-yard playoff games with his seventh in AFC title game win over Jets, going 26 of 39 for 377 yards ... Is No. 3 in postseason completions ... Had instrumental role in development of young WRs this season.

2. Peyton in the pocket: One of the more amazing feats about the Colts’ offense is that quarterback Peyton Manning has been sacked only 12 times this season. It’s a credit to Indianapolis’ offensive line and certainly to Manning too, and is among the biggest challenges for the Saints’ defense.

Manning has consistently beaten the blitz all year better than any other quarterback, so New Orleans defensive coordinator Gregg Williams must find a way for his players to get Manning to the grass.

DEFENSE • Dwight Freeney, DE (93), 6-1, 268, 8th season, Syracuse: All-Pro DE who plays hurt, with a motor that never stops. But ligament damage in his right ankle could sideline him, a big blow for the defense ... Also considered undersized, but never has inhibited him ... Led team with 13½ sacks in 14 games, has team record of 84 sacks in career ... First-round pick in 2002 has started all 14 postseason games in career ... Has made five Pro Bowls.

3. What about Bush? New Orleans running back Reggie Bush is one of the league’s most intriguing players — ridiculously talented with big-play potential, but with so many questions about how to actually use him effectively.

When the Saints find a way to get Bush involved consistently, by using him as a receiver and a target for screen passes, the New Orleans offense takes on a completely different look. It will be interesting to see how the Colts, especially with an ailing secondary, find a way to take Bush away.

• Antoine Bethea, FS (41), 5-11, 203, 4th season, Howard: Somehow, he was not voted to Pro Bowl ... A playmaker and leader on defense ... Started every game and had to hold secondary together in face of injuries ... Had 95 tackles.

• Gary Brackett, MLB (58), 5-11, 235, 7th season, Rutgers: Leader of the defense, has gone from undrafted free agent to key contributor ... Became starter in 2005 and sets tone for physical, fast linebackers ... Missed two games this season with knee injury, battled injuries all year, but had 99 tackles ... Watch for him to make an early statement with a hard hit.

Key matchups: Colts vs. Saints defense The Saints’ chore on defense is obvious yet very complicated — stop Peyton Manning (18). Manning has been marvelous again in the regular season in playoff victories over the Ravens and Jets. Indeed, he found weaknesses in two of the league’s stingiest defenses, completing 67.5 percent of his throws for 623 yards, five touchdowns and one interception.

New Orleans must find a pass rush, and DE Will Smith is good at rushing the QB. But the Saints have only one sack in the playoffs, even though they regularly hit Brett Favre last week. DT Sedrick Ellis (98), DE Bobby McCray (93) and linebackers Jon Vilma (51), Scott Fujita (55) and Scott Shanle (58) need to pressure Manning, or he will use a deep collection of receivers to pick apart the Saints.

Reggie Wayne (87) wasn’t much of a factor in the AFC title game matched up with Darrelle Revis, but the Saints have nobody in Revis’ class. CBs Jabari Greer (32) and Tracy Porter (22) struggled against the Vikings, and against the Cardinals the previous week. If New Orleans native Manning is salivating, it isn’t over Cajun cuisine, but because of the opportunities he envisions for Wayne, his fellow WRs Pierre Garcon (85) and Austin Collie (17), and All-Pro tight end Dallas Clark (44).

Clark versus another All-Pro, safety Darren Sharper (42), will be a juicy matchup.

The Colts will try to run with Joseph Addai (29) and Donald Brown (31) behind a line that was built to protect Manning but is effective enough in the ground game.

Center Jeff Saturday (63) and RT Ryan Diem (71) are their premier blockers, but Indy has to win through the air.

4. Turnover machine: On the stat sheet alone, the New Orleans defense can seem pedestrian, with plenty of yards and points allowed. But no team in the NFL this year has been as good at making the game-changing defensive play. The Saints have picked off 29 passes — including three in the playoffs — and recovered 13 fumbles. Four of those fumble recoveries have come in the postseason.

Peyton Manning and the Colts rarely turn the ball over (the glaring exception was Manning’s three-interception game against Denver), but the Saints should be able to find a way to get the ball away from him.

5. Wayne and the kids: Think back to August. Did you know who Pierre Garcon or Austin Collie were? Now, they are as integral a part of the Colts’ offense as stars like Reggie Wayne and Dallas Clark. With so many play-making receivers, opposing defenses have often chosen to try to eliminate Wayne, undoubtedly the biggest threat, and take their chances with Garcon, the second-year player out of Division III Mount Union College, and rookie Collie. Ask the Jets how that worked out.

• Pierre Thomas, RB (23), 5-11, 215, 3rd season, Illinois: Undrafted out of college, has gone from special teams ace to starting running back ...

Led Saints with 793 yards rushing and six TDs. Also had 39 receptions and two more TDs ... Overtime leap on fourth-and-1 for first down was key in NFC championship victory ... Has recovered from late-season rib injury that sidelined him for regular-season finale.

• Reggie Bush, RB (25), 6-0, 203, 4th season, Southern California: Dynamic receiver, runner and punt returner, but also mistake-prone ... Recovery from knee surgery slowed him for much of schedule, but has rediscovered his burst since getting healthy ... Broke 83-yard punt return and 46-yard run for scores vs. Arizona in divisional round ... Muffed punt in championship game, but also scored touchdown on reception.

• Marques Colston, WR (12), 6-4, 225, 4th season, Hofstra: Hofstra has dropped football, but Colston remains a force ... Versatile wideout can get deep, make catches over the middle and on sidelines ... Led Saints with 70 catches for 1,074 yards and scored nine times ... Has eight catches in postseason..

• Drew Brees, QB (9), 6-0, 209, 9th season, Purdue: Comes off sensational season in which he led NFL in passer rating (109.6, a career high), TD passes (34), and completion percentage (70.6, an NFL record) ... Had 4,388 yards passing, his fourth consecutive 4,000yard season ... Has been key to Saints’ turnaround since 2006, leading them to two NFC title games and now the Super Bowl ... Was a college hero in Indiana, although not many Colts fans likely are rooting for him this time ... Has thrown six TDs, no INTs and has 116.1 rating in playoffs.

DEFENSE • Will Smith, DE (91), 6-2, 282, 6th season, Ohio State: New Orleans’ best pass rusher, was second in NFC with 13 sacks ... Has not come close to one in playoffs, but has an interception ... Has 49½ career sacks and has caused 16 career fumbles, recovering six ... One of players implicated in StarCaps case, has not been forced to sit out any games yet.

• Jonathan Vilma, MLB (51), 6-1, 230, 6th season, Miami: Was 2004 Defensive Rookie of Year with Jets, where he was dominant in 4-3 defense. Jets switched to 3-4 when Eric Mangini became coach, wasting Vilma’s pursuit skills. Was traded to Saints in 2008 and became centerpiece of New Orleans defense ... Made 130 tackles this season, had three INTs and two sacks. Also had interception in NFC title game.

• Darren Sharper, FS (42), 6-2, 210, 13th season, William and Mary: All-Pro ballhawk who tied for league lead with nine INTs, returning three for scores ...

Set NFL record with 376 yards on his interception runbacks, one for 99 yards ... Also solid in run support and will match up with another All-Pro in Dallas Clark ... Had 93 tackles this season ...

One guy Peyton Manning must watch out for.

Key matchups: Saints vs. Colts defense New Orleans scored 510 points to lead the league and has 76 in two playoff games. The Saints have gotten everyone involved, with Drew Brees (9), the NFL’s most accurate passer. Brees has more mobility than Manning and is effective, even brilliant at times, throwing on the run. Brees can be unstoppable when he uses short drops for quick-hitting plays over the middle.

So DEs Robert Mathis (98) and All-Pro Dwight Freeney (93) need to get in his face rapidly, but Freeney is plagued by ligament damage in his right ankle and his availability will be a game-time decision. If the Colts can’t get a decent pass rush, Brees will find WRs Marques Colston (12), Devery Henderson (19), Robert Meachem (17), and Lance Moore (16), and TEs Jeremy Shockey (88) and David Thomas (85). Shockey has been plagued by right knee problems.

Indy will deploy lots of cornerbacks to handle the wideouts, including Kelvin Hayden (26), a hero of the Super Bowl win over the Bears; rookies Jacob Lacey (27) and Jerraud Powers (25), who missed the AFC title game with a left foot problem; and Tim Jennings. What the Colts must avoid is winding up with standout safeties Antoine Bethea (41) or Melvin Bullitt (33) in single coverage on RB Reggie Bush (25). The dynamic Bush often is a make-or-break proposition for New Orleans, and he’s most dangerous in the passing game. Nose tackle Dan Muir (90), coming off two strong efforts, and active LBs Gary Brackett (58) and Clint Session (55) are the keys to slowing the running attack led by Pierre Thomas (23), Bush and Mike Bell (21).

Scouting report: Who has the edge?

When the Colts run

When the Saints run

When the Colts pass

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The Colts won’t win this game — or any game — if they have to rely on ther running game. Indianapolis rushed for only 80.9 yards per game this season, an average that was worse than every other team in the league. Joseph Addai was right at that average with 80 yards in the AFC championship game against the Jets, though to his credit, he did it on only 16 carries. The Saints’ run defense has been decent, allowing 122.2 yards per game through the regular season, but slightly more than that in the postseason, and has shown to be vulnerable at times.

For all the talk of the Saints’ passing attack, the success of the offense depends on the running game, led by Pierre Thomas and complemented by Reggie Bush and even Mike Bell. If those guys can get going early, Brees will be in perfect position to hit those explosive big plays New Orleans is known for. You might not know the names of the top Colts run stoppers, but guys like Daniel Muir and Gary Brackett have been quite effective, and held the Jets (the No. 1 rushing team) to only 86 yards in the championship game.

Apologies to the New Orleans secondary, especially safety Darren Sharper, but there is no question who holds the edge here. His name is Peyton Manning, and he continues to rise in those discussions of Greatest of All Time. Doesn’t hurt, either, that he’s got a receiving corps that includes Reggie Wayne and tight end Dallas Clark. The Saints have given up only 235.6 passing yards per game and have picked off 29 passes to this point.

The Saints run a complicated timingbased offense that quarterback Drew Brees has mastered. Brees threw for nearly 4,400 yards in the regular season and 444 more yards in two playoff games. But most impressively, he completes around 70 percent of his passes.

New Orleans’ wide receivers Marques Colston, Devery Henderson and Lance Moore aren’t stars, but Brees can make them great. The Colts secondary is led by underrated safety Antoine Bethea, but the unit has been proven to be vulnerable on the outside.

The Colts have one of the most clutch Super Bowl kickers in Adam Viniateri on their roster — only he’s not playing — and 42-year-old Matt Stover is. The kicker everyone has been talking about since the championship games is Garrett Hartley of the Saints, who nailed a 40-yarder in overtime to get the Saints here. New Orleans’ kickoff and punt returns, including Reggie Bush, also have an advantage as well.

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AUTO RACING: NASCAR SPRINT CUP

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Rick Hendrick, Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. spent the last month talking about how those in-house, offseason moves would make a difference.

On Saturday, they may have convinced everyone else.

Martin and Earnhardt posted the top qualifying runs and secured the front row for next week’s Daytona 500. It might not mean as much as Hendrick Motorsports’ 1-2-3 finish in last season’s Sprint Cup standings, but the latest sweep provided some validation to those changes made in hopes of bolstering both teams and getting crew chiefs Alan Gustafson (Martin) and Lance McGrew (Earnhardt) on the same page.

“The challenge was we wanted one team with two cars,” Hendrick said. “Then they unloaded two cars that ran almost identical times. I know this is just one race, but no one here and no one outside of our company will know the effort that Alan and Lance put into this team and these two cars, and I’m really proud of ’em.”

Martin, the only driver to top 191 mph, earned his first Daytona 500 pole. At 51, he also became the oldest driver to earn the top spot for NASCAR’s premier race.

“I love getting records,” Martin said.

Earnhardt, meanwhile, will start second in his attempt to rebound from the worst season in his Sprint Cup career.

Skyliners Continued from D1 The commission will also consider a proposal to raise the event permit fee from $35 to $135.

“There is an energy in having events that helps make Bend appealing,” says Dave Skinkle, a local cyclist and triathlete who has been participating in time trial events on Skyliners Road since 2005. “Take away all the events, and you have Burns.”

Skyliners Road has long been sought out by cyclists as a quiet forest route perfect for recreational riding and training. In fact, a bicycle count conducted by the county last July revealed that bicyclists make up, at times, 35 to 40 percent of traffic on Skyliners Road. With low traffic volume (a traffic count on a Saturday in May 2009 reported that only 380 motor vehicles drove the length of the road), close access to abundant parking at Summit High School and its ideal course length (nine miles one way), Skyliners road is an excellent venue for staging individual time trial races.

“I’ve done a lot of the weeknight time trials on Skyliners and have never had a car incident,” says Skinkle, 51. “There seems to be no more than two cars that ever pass on the way up and hardly ever anyone coming down.”

In 2009, six events were permitted on Skyliners Road, including the Cascade Cycling Classic; the Elite, Junior & U23 Road National Championships; the High Desert Omnium; the Duel in the Desert duathlon; and the FreshAirSports Time Trial and Duathlon Series, and the Cascade Lakes (running) Relay. These six events accounted for a total of 13 event days, with varying degrees of impact on residents. Participants in the Cascade Lakes Relay merely cross Skyliners, and the road is closed to vehicle traffic during the Cascade Cycling Classic’s pro/elite time trial and for the national championship time trial.

But both cycling events and recreational riders have drawn the ire of residents who live on Skyliners Road, which lacks adequate shoulders, is pocked with potholes, and in many spots is crumbling at the edges.

At recent public meetings, residents complained of cyclists who refuse to ride single file when motorists attempt to pass on the narrow and curvy road, and of the inconvenience of traveling to and from home during eventrelated road closures. Blinded by the setting summer sun, residents say it is sometimes difficult to see cyclists participating in the weeknight FreshAirSports series.

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NASCAR driver Mark Martin is all smiles after qualifying for the Daytona 500 on Saturday, in Daytona Beach, Fla., with the top speed.

“This is just a small step in the right direction for the 88,” Earnhardt said. “Hopefully we can be a part of what the other three teams have had success-wise in the past season this coming year.”

But Earnhardt also stopped short of making too much out of one qualifying run at his best track.

“You know, all this really does today is pleases a ton of people back in Charlotte, gets all these guys on our teams that are traveling out here with us pumped up about this opportunity coming up,” he said. “It takes a little bit of pressure off, relieves a little bit of stress to be able to go out there and be able to do something good.”

Martin and Earnhardt are the only drivers in the 43-man field who have their starting positions locked in. The top 35 drivers from 2009 are guaranteed starting spots in next Sunday’s race, but their positions won’t be set until Thursday’s 150-mile qualifying races.

Two-time Daytona 500 champion Bill Elliott, Scott Speed and Joe Nemechek also locked up spots in the season-opening race, and Bobby Labonte will get in based on a past series champions provisional. That leaves four spots up for grabs in those Thursday races, which could be wild affairs because NASCAR is giving drivers more horsepower and more leeway for aggressive driving.

Some Skyliners Road residents also believe that the frequency of races offered on the road draws a higher number cyclists to train there. The deteriorating condition of the road, the residents say, makes it even more dangerous for time-crunched racing cyclists and passing cars to safely coexist.

On a positive note, the longterm solution is one on which all parties seem to agree. Skyliners Road, designated as a federal forest highway, is due to be widened and repaired with federal dollars. Unfortunately, Skyliners is not scheduled to move to the top of the federal funding list for another six years.

“Everybody agrees that the road needs to be reconstructed and bike lanes added,” says County Administrator Erik Kropp, who notes that any resolutions passed on Monday night regarding restrictions or fees on Skyliners Road will be in effect only until the road is reconstructed. “That’s where we have complete agreement, and that’s the long-term solution.”

The obvious question regarding a short-term solution is: Why can’t event promoters find another road on which to stage cycling races?

“We have spent a ton of time — myself and my crew and working in cooperation with the county — looking for a different venue,” says Chad Sperry, race director for both the Cascade Cycling Classic and the road national championships. “Nothing else even comes close to meeting the requirements and needs that Skyliners Road does.”

At Monday’s public hearing, county staff will recommend in its resolution to the commission that event permits be limited to two event days per year.

This limit would affect only the Fresh-AirSports series, which over the last five years has typically offered six weeknight races on Skyliners Road as part of its series.

“The residents have said where they have the biggest issue is not with the weekly night events,” says Gina Miller, owner of FreshAirSports. “The biggest issue is events that block the road all day, and recreational cyclists.

It’s a weird compromise because we’re the only one affected by a limitation like that, and we’re not the biggest problem.”

The $100 permit fee increase, the other piece of the proposal, would pay for a reserve police officer to patrol Skyliners Road during events to ensure that cyclists and vehicle drivers comply with the rules of the road.

“The draft resolution is simply a starting point and a recommendation that the public can respond to,” says Kropp, who notes that the commission could

choose to leave the Skyliners event permitting process as it is, choose to ban events altogether, or decide to seek another solution.

“I think it’s a fair compromise, though there might be better ideas out there — and people are welcome to bring those ideas (to the public hearing) Monday night,” says Kropp. “This is one of those policy decisions that won’t make everyone happy. The only thing that will make everyone happy is redoing the road.

“The recommendation,” Kropp adds, “tries to balance the wishes of the cycling community, event organizers and residents. For the residents it doesn’t go far enough, and for event organizers and cyclists it goes too far.”

Event promoters and racing cyclists believe that the proposed restrictions unfairly target them, when they believe it is recreational cyclists riding in groups who are the primary cause of motorists’ frustration.

“To my knowledge, all of the races which take place on Skyliners Road use the timetrial format where no riders are abreast except when passing and race rules require that all rules of the road be followed including staying as far to the right as is safely possible,” wrote Mark Reinecke — a member of the Mt. Bachelor Rotary Club, which organizes the Duel in the Desert duathlon — in a recent letter to the commission.

The commission must also weigh the positive economic impact many of these events have on the community against the safety concerns and inconvenience the races create for local residents.

“With Bend’s economy being so trashed right now, turning money away can’t possibly be at the top of their list,” says Sperry, noting that the 2009 road national championships in Bend generated what an Oregon State University survey estimated at $1.44 million in direct tourism spending.

Nearly all of the events held on Skyliners Road also donate proceeds raised from the races to charity. According to Reinecke, since its inception in 2003, the Duel in the Desert has donated more than $40,000 to local nonprofits, including the KIDS Center and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Oregon.

“It is true that the pavement is broken and a bit rough in places, so choosing a smooth and fast line on the ride sometimes means not clinging to the right side of the road,” says Bend cyclist Mark Spencer, 51, who has competed in the FreshAirSports Time Trial and Duathlon series for several years. “However, I’ve not seen riders riding unsafely.

(Skyliners Road) is a safe and

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Kevin Harvick overcame a bout with the flu and a wrecked race car to earn his second consecutive victory in the exhibition Budweiser Shootout on Saturday night.

Too ill to travel to Daytona International Speedway for the opening of Speedweeks, Harvick turned his Chevrolet over to Richard Childress Racing teammate Clint Bowyer for the first practice of the season. But Bowyer was caught in an early accident that destroyed the No. 29 and forced the team to pull out its backup.

Although he led late, a caution for Michael Waltrip’s wreck with five laps remaining muddled what was shaping up to be a sure win. Greg Biffle and Kasey Kahne stayed on the track during the caution, and Harvick led most of the 24-car field onto pit road.

He was in fourth when the race restarted with two laps to go, but quickly pulled out of line to dive underneath Biffle and claim the lead. He was pulling away when Jeff Gordon rammed into the back of Biffle, triggering an eightcar accident behind the leader.

NASCAR waited several moments before calling caution, presumably to see if the wreckage cleared and the race could end under green. Instead, Harvick passed under the yellow flag and won under caution.

— The Associated Press

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By Barry Wilner The Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Here’s how you stop Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith: Put them in the Hall of Fame and watch them break down and cry.

The men who tore apart NFL defenses couldn’t handle the emotions Saturday when they were elected to the shrine along with five others.

“They told me ‘Don’t cry,’ ” Rice said, his eyes wet with tears. “It meant the world to me, just like winning a Super Bowl.

On draft day, I didn’t take that for granted. I didn’t take this for granted.”

He could have.

A nominee needs 80 percent approval from the 44 media members who vote and Rice and Smith were slam-dunks in their first year of eligibility.

Vote totals aren’t announced.

“I am just honored ... to stand up there with greatness,” Rice added.

Smith teared up when speaking about his father and how “I was living his dream.”

“We are blessed to achieve this level of greatness together,” Smith said, referring to Rice.

They will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 7.

Rice and Smith each won three Super Bowls and was the MVP in one of those victories. Smith was the 1993 league MVP, as well.

Rice, the NFL’s career receiving and touchdowns leader, and Smith, the top rusher, were joined in the Hall by John Randle, Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, Floyd Little and Dick LeBeau. Little and LeBeau were elected as senior committee nominees.

Rice, the perfect receiver for the West Coast offense, played 20 seasons for San Francisco, Oakland and Seattle. He made 1,549 catches for 22,895 yards, had 14 1,000-yard seasons and scored 208 touchdowns.

Smith, among the most durable running backs, rushed

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for 18,355 yards and 164 touchdowns for Dallas and Arizona.

Steve Young, one of two Hall of Fame quarterbacks who threw to Rice, got the first hug from the new inductee, then said: “They made yards after the catch a stat because of Jerry Rice.”

Two other all-time top receivers, Cris Carter and Tim Brown, weren’t elected. Carter, in his third year of eligibility, stands third in career receptions with 1,101, while Brown, in his first year on the ballot, made 1,094.

Jackson, a do-everything linebacker with a great burst off the line, finished his 15-season career for New Orleans and San Francisco with 128 sacks.

A six-time Pro Bowler, Jackson sparked the first turnaround by the Saints from Aints to contender, in the late 1980s. He helped the Saints to their first division title and playoff berth.

Randle was that rare defensive tackle who was a premier pass rusher. An undrafted free agent out of Texas A&I, Randle had 137½ sacks for Minnesota and Seattle, tied for sixth overall and most for his position, and led the league with 15½ in 1997. He played in seven Pro Bowls.

Grimm, a member of the Washington Redskins’ famed Hogs offensive line, won three Super Bowls. A guard, he made four Pro Bowls and was selected to the all-decade team of the 1980s.

LeBeau, the current defensive coordinator of the Pittsburgh Steelers, is considered one of pro football’s great defensive innovators as a coach.

But he was voted in for his outstanding work for the Lions from 1959-72. LeBeau finished with 62 interceptions, second among cornerbacks when he retired.

Little starred for the Denver Broncos in the AFL and NFL, leading the NFL in rushing in 1971 with 1,133 yards and in touchdowns rushing in 1973 with 12. He waited 30 years to get elected.

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Japanese Chin-MiKi Mix Pups General’s Office Consumer (2), 4 mos., absolutely adorProtection hotline at able, $250 ea. 541-447-0210 1-877-877-9392.

Kittens & cats, incl. some of the Toy or small 80 Cat Rescue, Adoption & POODLES-AKC miniature pups, cuddly Foster Team rescued from tail-waggers, 541-475-3889. the Madras hoarding seizure, ready to adopt! Most are on Purebred Pit Bull Puppies, with CAT NEUTER SPECIAL! www.craftcats.org along with The Bend Spay and Neuter beautiful markings, males others, directions to CRAFT & Project is offering $20 male $300 & females $350, shots more. 541 389 8420. Open cat neuter special throughincluded 541-526-5887.

Sat/Sun 1-5 (no need to call out February in celebration of Rottweiler WANTED: Male w/ 1st), other days by appt.

SPAY DAY USA on February “attitude” for adult compan23rd. Help us get ahead of ion, no kids, 541-382-8762. rampant breeding cycles this Kitties, Purr-fect for Valentines, sweet, from Madras rescue, year, have your pets altered!!

Shiba Inu Female Dog altered, all colors,541-548-5516 Please call 617-1010 to make 9 months old asking $250. an appointment.

LAB PUPS, AKC yellows & Call 541-977-5820. blacks, champion filled lines, Cavalier Cross, female, FREE! 4 OFA hips, dew claws, 1st Shih Tzu AKC pups, only 2 Yr. old, black and tan, very females left, $375 each, call shots, wormed, parents on social. 541-788-0090.

Cheri 541-788-2321. site, $500/ea. 541-771-2330. www.kinnamanranch.com Cavalier King Charles, AKC Shih Tzu/Maltese Cross pups Male, 7 mo., house broke, Labradoodles, Australian and older dogs, males and shots, $800. 541-382-2194 Imports 541-504-2662 females avail. 541-874-2901 www.alpen-ridge.com charley2901@gmail.com Chihuahua Female 3.5 mos.

Housebroke. Crate Trained.

Labs, Chocolates, AKC, Shih Tzu pups, gold/white, Comes with Crate, Step-In exc. pedigree, 6 males, $350-$650. 541-788-0090.

Harness, Toys, and Food.

4 females 541-536-5385 www.bluemoonshihtzus.com Perfect Valentine”s Day Gift! www.welcomelabs.com SIBERIAN HUSKY! Female, $200 OBO. 541-848-9398.

Miniature Pinscher Pup for purebred, vet check, shots, Chihuahua mix puppies, 1st Valentine's Day! Only one born Oct. 17. 206-617-2282 shots, long & short haired female left, $250.

ST. BERNARD Purebred $125 ea. 541-536-5538 541-905-9726 Pups Ready Valentines Day. parents onsite. 2 girls $450 Companion cats free to seniors! Mini Aussie Pups, gorgeous ea. & 1 boy $400. pics avail, ready to go. Socialized, Shots Tame, altered, shots, ID chip. hollym@cascadeoccmed.com $450-$500. 541-475-1166.

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Appliances, new & reconditioned, guaranteed. Overstock sale. Lance & Sandy’s Maytag, 385-5418 Bed, w/matress & box springs, full standard size, frame incl., clean, $175. 541-389-3010.

1956 Westinghouse Fountain Coca-Cola Machine, good cond. Only $2499.

541-884-6730 Antiques Wanted: Tools, fishing, marbles, wood furniture, beer cans. 541-389-1578 Furniture

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Visit our HUGE home decor consignment store.

New items arrive daily!

930 SE Textron & 1060 SE 3rd St., Bend • 318-1501 www.redeuxbend.com

Book Cases (5), Sauder, 72” high x 32” wide, new in box, $60 ea. OBO, 541-598-4674.

Coins & Stamps

Find It in The Bulletin Classifieds!

541-385-5809

Dining Room Set, Early American Style, 6 chairs, perfect cond, table always covered with table mat, $400 firm.

541-317-5154 Dining table, w/4 chairs, folding end leaves, $75, 541-389-3010 End Table w/lamp, 27” high, 3-way light fixture, $10, call 541-389-3010 GENERATE SOME excitement in your neigborhood. Plan a garage sale and don't forget to advertise in classified!

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215 WANTED TO BUY US & Foreign Coin, Stamp & Currency collect, accum. Pre 1964 silver coins, bars, rounds, sterling fltwr. Gold coins, bars, jewelry, scrap & dental gold. Diamonds, Rolex & vintage watches. No collection to large or small.

Bedrock Rare Coins 549-1658

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Bicycles and Accessories 2008 Trek Mountain Bike, brand new, must sell $200.

541-480-2652.

Mens Mtn. Bike, Mongoose, 21 spd., good con., $75, please call 541-548-0836 Mtn. Bikes (2) Scott hardtail 15” & 19” tires like new $300/both. 541-350-6865.

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Exercise Equipment Ab Lounge Stomach Exercise Chair, exc. cond., $50. After 4:30 pm or msg, 389-3469.

Love Seat, Sante Fe Style, 2 pillows included, $100.

541-389-3010

Mattresses

good quality used mattresses, discounted king sets, fair prices, sets & singles.

541-598-4643.

Exercise Bike, Schwinn, tension control and timer great cond. $100. 541-388-1484.

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Golf Equipment Clubs, all woods/irons, MacGregor, umbrella, nice cart, Ray Crock putter, $199, 389-3010

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MUST SELL! (541) 977-2864 www.extrafurniture.com

Sectional Sofa, Large, chaise & recliners, was $3200, sell for $500, 541-604-5791 SIDE-BY-SIDE REFRIGERATOR: 22 cu. ft., clean, $99.

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Snow Removal Equipment

Architects Lamp, brand new, swing arm, clamp on to table edge., $12. 541-385-7761

HELP YOUR AD TO stand out from the rest! Have the top line in bold print for only $2.00 extra.

Snowblower, 24”, exc. condition., $150, call 541-389-4953.

GUNS: Buy, Sell, Trade call for more information.

541-728-1036.

HANDGUN SAFETY CLASS for concealed license. NRA, Police Firearms Instructor, Lt. . Gary DeKorte. Wed. Feb 10th, 6:30-10:30 pm.

Call Kevin, Centwise, for reservations. $40. 548-4422.

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HUNTERS: Everything Incl.

Antelope Hunts In Wyoming.

Bow or Rifle, easy area to draw license. Hunt Success Rate 100%. 307-464-0315.

Bedrock Gold & Silver BUYING DIAMONDS & ROLEX’S For Cash 549-1592

Billiard Pockets, 6 brand new quality leather, cost $160, sell $89. 541-385-7761 BUYING AND SELLING All gold jewelry, diamonds, silver and gold coins and bars, wedding sets, class rings, sterling silver, coin collect, vintage watches, dental gold.

Bill Fleming, 382-9419.

BUYING DIAMONDS FOR CASH SAXON'S FINE JEWELERS 541-389-6655

Find exactly what you are looking for in the CLASSIFIEDS

BUYING Lionel/American Flyer trains, accessories. 408-2191.

Mini-14 with accessories, $700, Mossberg 12 Ga, auto loading, $125, 541-389-1645

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Sometimes instructions over the phone are mis understood and an error can occur in your ad.

If this happens to your ad, please contact us the first day your ad appears and we will be happy to fix it as soon as we can.

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Oregon’s Largest 3 Day GUN & KNIFE SHOW February 5-6-7 Portland Expo Center NEW SHOW HOURS Fri. 12-6, Sat.9-5, Sun.10-4 I-5 exit #306B - Adm. $9 1- 800-659-3400 CollectorsWest.com

Sig Sauer P220 with laser grips and more $800 plus 500 rounds UMC ammo. Ruger #1 1998 safari club international 1/30 in 257 roberts, just like new. $800 541-388-8985 Upland Game Bird Hunting Juniper Rim Game Preserve Brothers, OR. Check website for monthly specials. for more info: www. juniperrimgamepreserve.com 541-419-3923,541-419-8963

Winchester 94 Centennial Model 30.30, beautiful walnut, $575. 541-923-0081 Advertise your car!

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TV, Stereo and Video TV ROOF ANTENNA STILL WORKS. $40.

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Building Materials NEED TO CANCEL OR PLACE YOUR AD? The Bulletin Classifieds has an "After Hours" Line Call 383-2371 24 hrs. to cancel or place your ad!

Bend Habitat RESTORE Building Supply Resale Quality at LOW PRICES 740 NE 1st 312-6709 Open to the public .

The Bulletin Offers Free Private Party Ads • 3 lines - 7 days • Private Party Only • Total of items advertised equals $25 or Less • One ad per month • 3-ad limit for same item advertised within 3 months Call 385-5809 fax 385-5802 The Bulletin reserves the right to publish all ads from The Bulletin newspaper onto The Bulletin Internet website.

Heating and Stoves

Wanted- paying cash for Hi-fi audio & studio equip. McIntosh, JBL, Marantz, Dynaco, Heathkit, Sansui, Carver, NAD, etc. Call 541-261-1808

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Medical Equipment Crutches, exc., push button adjustable, $15.

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Commercial / Office Equipment &Fixtures Executive Office Furniture/ Equipment Auction Assets from a local failed Bank!

Online Only! Bid Now @ www.worleyauctioneers.com Auction Ends Feb 15th @ 3pm Inspection – Feb 14th 11-4 at 550 NW Franklin St. Bend.

Executive Office Furniture / Desks/Chairs/Flat Screen TV’s/Computers/IT Equipment/Phones/Appliances/ Copiers/Printers/File Cabinets/Leather Chairs/Lobby Furniture/Cubicles & More!!!!

For more info log onto www.worleyauctioneers.com Or call (513) 774-9182

266 Gas Fireplace, Vermont Castings, free standing, forest green color, like new cond., $350, 541-385-9177.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISER Since September 29, 1991, advertising for used woodstoves has been limited to models which have been certified by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as having met smoke emission standards. A certified woodstove can be identified by its certification label, which is permanently attached to the stove. The Bulletin will not knowingly accept advertising for the sale of uncertified woodstoves.

Regency Wood Stove 2006, Model F-1100S, also selling +/- 3 cords of wood, must sell this weekend, make offer, 971-533-0518.

St. Croix pellet stove w/many unique features. Incl. slate hearth pad, install guide, wall thermostat, stovepipe etc.

Req. only 12 in. clearance. 4 mo. used Heats 800-1800 sqft. Orig. $3300, will sacrifice @$1800. 541-410-0718

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Fuel and Wood

WHEN BUYING FIREWOOD...

To avoid fraud, The Bulletin recommends payment for Firewood only upon delivery & inspection.

• A cord is 128 cu. ft.

4’ x 4’ x 8’ • Receipts should include, name, phone, price and kind of wood purchased.

All Year Dependable Firewood: SPLIT Lodgepole cords $155 when you buy 1.5 or more. Bend Del. Cash, Check, Visa/MC. 420-3484

CRUISE THROUGH classified when you're in the market for a new or used car.

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Computers THE BULLETIN requires computer advertisers with multiple ad schedules or those selling multiple systems/ software, to disclose the name of the business or the term "dealer" in their ads.

Private party advertisers are defined as those who sell one computer.

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AUTOMOTIVE Bob Thomas Car Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . .541-382-2911 . . . . . . . . . . www.bobthomas.com Thomas Sales and Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .541-389-3031 . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.tsands.com

Musical Instruments

EMPLOYMENT

A Private Party paying cash for firearms. 541-475-4275 or 503-781-8812.

ATTN. BIRD HUNTERS Gateway Canyon Preserve is open until March 31st, 2010 for Pheasant and Chukar hunting. located just 11 miles North of Madras.

Steve & Faith 541-475-2065 email: micmcm@madras.net

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Dark Golden Retriever AKC, Pups, 2 males $300 ea., ready now, all shots, very sociable. 541-948-5601.

English Springer Spaniel, Gorgeous, 1 yr old Family dog. kennel, crate, toys, etc. $600 Call 541-350-6976.

The Bulletin recommends extra caution when purchasing products or services from out of the area. Sending cash, checks, or credit information may be subjected to F R A U D .

For more information about an advertiser, you may call the Oregon State Attorney General’s Office Consumer Protection hotline at 1-877-877-9392.

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Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Barrett Business Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .541-382-6946 . . . . . .www.barrettbusiness.com 1910 Steinway Model A Parlor Grand Piano burled mahogany, fully restored in & out, $46,000 incl. professional West Coast delivery.

541-408-7953.

Flex Force Staffing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .541-749-7931 . . . . . . . . . . . .www.flex-force.com

MEDIA

www.gatewaycanyonpreserve.com

Student wants CAR OR TRUCK running or NOT! Call anytime.

Daniel 541-280-6786.

Brand New Browning 12 ga. pump shot gun, still in box, 3.5” chamber, paid almost $600, $400. 541-480-1373

Look at: Bendhomes.com for Complete Listings of Area Real Estate for Sale

Table, Wooden 6 ft. w/6 chairs & two leaves, good cond. $400 OBO. 541-350-1765.

CASH!!

For Guns, Ammo & Reloading Supplies. 541-408-6900.

Organ, Lowry, w/bench, & Rhythm attachment, very nice $100, 541-548-4969.

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Saturday Real Estate . . . . 11:00am Fri. Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 Fri. Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noon Sat.

Starting at 3 lines *UNDER $500 in total merchandise 7 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.00 14 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16.00

Place a photo in your private party ad for only $15.00 per week.

Garage Sale Special

OVER $500 in total merchandise 4 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17.50 7 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $23.00 14 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $32.50 28 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $60.50

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PLEASE NOTE; Check your ad for accuracy the first day it appears. Please call us immediately if a correction is needed. We will gladly accept responsibility for one incorrect insertion. The publisher reserves the right to accept or reject any ad at anytime, classify and index any advertising based on the policies of these newspapers. The publisher shall not be liable for any advertisement omitted for any reason. Private Party Classified ads running 7 or more days will publish in the Central Oregon Marketplace each Tuesday.

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Lodgepole Firewood, true full size cords, delivered/stacked $150 cord rounds, $175 split. Visa/MC accepted. 541-410-4211 Lodgepole, Fir & Pine Mix, split and delivery included $175 a cord. 541-923-6987. Leave message.

Log Truck loads of dry Lodgepole firewood, $1200 for Bend Delivery. 541-419-3725 or 541-536-3561 for more information.

LOST: X-Country Skis between Meissner and Bend on 1/23/10. 541-389-4015 Previously had incorrect phone number for caller.

REMEMBER: If you have lost an animal don't forget to check The Humane Society in Bend, 382-3537 or Redmond, 923-0882 or Prineville, 447-7178

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Estate Sales DON'T FORGET to take your signs down after your garage sale and be careful not to place signs on utility poles! www.bendbulletin.com

SEASONED JUNIPER $150/cord rounds, $170/cord split.

Delivered in Central Oregon.

Call eves. 541-420-4379 msg.

Solid Lodgepole or Juniper seasoned 2 years, $175/cord split and delivered. Tamarack, seasoned 2 years, $185/cord. 541-977-2040.

WOOD-MAN LUMBER CO.: Ponderosa Pine, 3 cord load, $550, split & delivered.

Call Scott, 541-325-2512.

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Gardening Supplies & Equipment BarkTurfSoil.com Instant Landscaping Co. PROMPT DELIVERY 541-389-9663 SUPER TOP SOIL www.hersheysoilandbark.com Screened, soil & compost mixed, no rocks/clods. High humus level, exc. for flower beds, lawns, gardens, straight screened top soil.

Bark. Clean fill. Deliver/you haul. 548-3949.

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Lost and Found FOUND: Duffel bag, 2/5/10 on Century Drive, call to identify 541-280-9381.

FOUND: prescription glasses at Shell car wash in Redmond on MLK day, January 18. Call 541-280-3001.

FOUND: Snow Boots, womens, Powder House parking lot. To identify, 541-389-6234.

LOST; 1/19 Men’s dark green jade ring, approx. size 11, antique gold settting 503-989-7703.

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Farm Equipment and Machinery Balers, (3) New Holland (2) 426, (1) 425, exc. cond., field ready with extras. $6250 ea.

OBO. 541-475-6739 or 541-325-2916.

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Llamas/Exotic Animals

Farmers Column

1st Cutting Alfalfa, 2 string, very nice & green, clean, no rain, in barn. Bale or ton, $115 per ton, 541-408-5463 or 541-475-6260.

Barn Stored Orchard Grass, and grass mix,70 lb. bales, $150/ ton, 3x3 Alfalfa feeder & premium, $100/ton & $125/ ton, Delivery avail. 548-2668.

CENTRAL OREGON LLAMA ASSOCIATION For help, info, events.

Call Marilyn at 447-5519 www.centraloregonllamas.org

Panels, 10’, 12’ 14 ‘ 16’. x 52 in.

(1) extra HD head gate built to handle buffalo, bow gates, gate, feeder panels, & more.

541-382-1230.

1st Cutting Alfalfa, no rain, in barn, small bales, $145 ton, Wheat Straw 3x4 $35/ton, Orchard Grass $145/ton & up Madras 541-390-2678.

Barn Stored small bales: Bluegrass straw, $70/T; Alfalfa 1st cut, $140/T; Alfalfa 3rd cut, $150/T; Grass/alfalfa, $140/T. Madras 541-480-0909

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Barn Stored Bluegrass Straw, clean & green, 3X3 mid-size bales, $22/bale, volume discounts available, Madras, call 541-480-8648.

Excellent grass hay, no rain, barn stored, grapple loading on Saturdays by appt., 2nd cutting avail. $160/ton. Delivery avail. 541-382-5626.

Barn Stored Grass hay, only 2 ton avail., $150/ton, or $8/bale, 541-382-1230.

Premium Quality Orchard Grass, Alfalfa & Mix Hay. All Cert. Noxious Weed Free, barn stored. 80 lb. 2 string bales. $160 ton. 548-4163.

Quality Hay,small bales in barn, Alfalfa 1st, 2nd, & 3rd, Orchard Grass 2nd, Feeder hay delivery avail. $85/ton & up.

541-771-9270,541-475-3379

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Sell your old one in the classifieds! Ask about our Super Seller rates!

541-385-5809

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Wheat Straw: Bedding Straw & Garden Straw; Alfalfa, 541-546-6171.

Fertilizer Spreader, Barber 20 ft. fertilizer spreader with soaper, like new condition $7500 OBO. 541-475-6739 or 541-325-2916.

1-2 PUNCH! Wow! W e Pick Up Older, Crippled, and Unwanted Horses. 548-3337

READY FOR A CHANGE? Don't just sit there, let the Classified Help Wanted column find a new challenging job for you. www.bendbulletin.com

Livestock & Equipment 3A LIVESTOCK SUPPLIES • Panels • Gates • Chutes • Roping Arenas • 6-Rail 16 ft. panels, $117 • 6-Rail 12 ft. panels, $101.

We accept MC/Visa Free Delivery! 541-475-1255.

A farmer that does it right & is on time. Power no till seeding, disc, till, plow & plant new/older fields, haying services, cut, rake, bale, Gopher control. 541-419-4516

345 200 ACRES BOARDING Indoor/outdoor arenas, stalls, & pastures, lessons & kid’s programs. 541-923-6372 www.clinefallsranch.com

(23) Horse Panels, good shape, You haul, 12’ gate and 5’ Bull gate. $2300. 541-548-3337 Boarding Available at 3 Peaks Ranch: A reining and cowhorse facility. Trainer available. Ride to BLM. Call for info. 541-408-7341.

Farmers Column 10X20 STORAGE BUILDINGS for protecting hay, firewood, livestock etc. $1623 Installed.

541-617-1133. CCB #173684. kfjbuilders@ykwc.net

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KIT INCLUDES: • 4 Garage Sale Signs • $1.00 Off Coupon To Use Toward Your Next Ad • 10 Tips For “Garage Sale Success!”

• And Inventory Sheet PICK UP YOUR GARAGE SALE KIT AT: 1777 SW Chandler Ave. Bend, OR 97702

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Healthy Living in Central Oregon John Deere 770 w/loader, blade, & mower, 740 hrs. on tractor, must sell to pay taxes, $10,000. Please call 541-977-2434.

Kubota Tractor MX5000 (50 H.P) 4x4 w/6’ Rototiller and 6’ front loader. Only 300 hours - 7’ rear blade - 5’ mower (brush hog), tire chains. $21,000.

Call Mike at 541-480-1722

Look What I Found!

You'll find a little bit of everything in The Bulletin's daily garage and yard sale section.

From clothes to collectibles, from housewares to hardware, classified is always the first stop for cost-conscious consumers. And if you're planning your own garage or yard sale, look to the classifieds to bring in the buyers.

You won't find a better place for bargains!

MacDon 1991 Swather 14’ Cummins Diesel 920 header conditioner, exc. cond. heat, A/C, radio, everything works $16,500. 541-419-2713.

A SLICK STOCK MAGAZINE CREATED TO HELP PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE, AND MAINTAIN AN ACTIVE, HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.

Central Oregon Business Owners: Reach Central Oregon with information about your health related retail products and services!

Distributed quarterly in more than 33,000 copies of The Bulletin and at distribution points throughout the market area, this new glossy magazine will speak directly to the consumer focused on health and healthy living – and help you grow your business and market share.

For more information, please contact Kristin Morris, Bulletin Health/Medical Account Executive at 541-617-7855, e-mail at kmorris@bendbulletin.com, or contact your assigned Bulletin Advertising Executive at 541-382-1811.

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Caregiver Prineville senior care home looking for Care Manager for 3 overnight shifts per week.

Must be mature and compassionate. References and experience only. 541-447-5773.

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Drug & Alcohol Counselor Part-time outpatient adolescent drug and alcohol counselor position in Lapine, OR. Experience is required. Call Mark for additional information at 1-541-447-2631 or send resume to: email: markg@rimrocktrailsats.com or FAX: 1-541-447-2616

Family Access Network For Early Childhood: 40 hrs wk., 230 days yr., wages no less than $12.82, full benefit package.

Responsibilities: Coordinates family services to county and community agencies, develops early childhood individual plans.

Qualifications: Fluent English & Spanish in verbal & written preferred, High School diploma or equivalent, AA or BA a plus.

For application go to: www.hdesd.org ``or 541-693-5620.

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Fiscal and Administrative Services Manager – Redmond, Oregon. Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC) is looking for a department manager responsible for fiscal and administrative functions.

Application, additional details and full job description available on the COIC website www.coic.org, at local COIC offices or at Administration – 2363 SW Glacier Place, Redmond, OR 97756. Faxed applications will be accepted (541) 923-3416. In order to be considered for this position, a completed application must be received by Wednesday, February 17, 2010 in the Redmond Administration office.

COIC is an EOE. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request for individuals with disabilities.

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Advertise in 25 Daily newspapers! $500/25-words, 3-days. Reach 3 million classified readers in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Washington. (916) 288-6019 email: elizabeth@cnpa.com for the Pacific Northwest Daily Connection. (PNDC)

Fitness Studio, strong in exercise science, seeks PHYSICAL THERAPIST to partner in health services expansion. 541-977-7472 Food ServicePilot Butte Rehabilitation Center the premier nursing facility in Central Oregon is seeking a cook to work 4 days per week in our kitchen. Experience in long-term care is a plus.

Knowledge of different diets is a plus. Please come fill out an application at 1876 NE HWY 20, in Bend, near Pilot Butte State Park.

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Front Desk Position for Property Mgmt Company Looking for fast paced, detail oriented person with the ability to meet deadlines and learn industry specific software. Must be a team player.

Banking or legal exp. helpful.

Redmond Office. Send resume with hand-written cover letter to Box 15857951, c/o The Bulletin, PO Box 6020, Bend, OR 97708.

General Central Oregon Community College

has openings listed below. Go to https://jobs.cocc.edu to view details & apply online.

Human Resources, Metolius Hall, 2600 NW College Way, Bend OR 97701; (541)383 7216. For hearing/speech impaired, Oregon Relay Services number is 7-1-1. COCC is an AA/EO employer.

More faculty positions for 2010/11 are on the way!

Keep checking the website.

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Administrative Assistant Assist a tax negotiations attorney in casual Bend office.

Client contact and clerical support. Clerical or legal support experience and college degree a plus. Benefits after 90 days. Fax cover letter, resume and salary requirement to: 541-330-0641.

Well respected Seattle based fish co seeks hardworking dedicated good attitude fish processors to work aboard proven vessel @ SEA. Mandatory orientation/more info Friday Feb 12 3pm Phoenix Inn Bend 300 NW Franklin, Bend 97701 541-317-9292 www.fishermensfinest.com

Requires strong mechanical skills and a background in machine shop tools, hydraulics, electro-pneumatics, and basic electricity.

Excellent intuitive troubleshooting and diagnostic skills in a high-volume production environment. Must be able to pass mechanical aptitude test. Three years previous experience required. Excellent benefits and wage up to $22 per hour D.O.E. Equal opportunity employer - Drug free workplace. Send resume to noslerhr@yahoo.com

FUN IN THE SUN 270 DAYS/YEAR!

Live that Great Outdoor Life in Sunny Central Oregon, Over 25 golf courses, lakes within ½ hour for camping, fishing and recreation, snow skiing/boarding on Mt. Bachelor within 45 minutes!

Locally owned Construction and Materials Company accepting resumes for Controller with hands on experience in the following: Will be responsible for directing, coordinating and supervising the workload of accounting department in performance of duties such as A/P, A/R, P/R, fixed assets reconciliation inventory control, equipment costing and job costing. Requirements include coordinating the monthly and annual fiscal closing and preparation of financial statements along with supplemental management reports and financial statement analysis on multiple entities. Responsible for multiple audits throughout the year in addition to assisting annual auditors. Essential to communicate and problem solve with members of management team. Must have software knowledge, cash flow management experience and keep up-to-date on regulatory agency requirements. CPA required.

7 plus years progressive accounting experience in addition to management and supervisory experience. Benefits include medical, dental, paid vacations and holidays. EOE/AAE. Please submit resume to: cmcginley@hookercreek.net or fax to 541-749-2024.

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Come join the Local Dog Because you want a career not a job!

We take initiative; we think outside of the box, we are forward thinking individuals looking for the same.

If you want to join a great team, BendBroadband is accepting applications for the following positions in our Business Services group:

• Account Executive • Senior Account Executive • Sales Manager • Service Tech Review position descriptions and submit an on-line application at www.bendbroadband.com. BendBroadband is a drug free workplace.

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Come join us at BendBroadband, a Local Company since 1955. We are in search of people who are forward thinking, open to change, excited by challenge, and committed to making things happen. In every position of our organization we take time to listen to our customers, understand their specific needs, propose realistic solutions, and over-achieve their expectations. We are searching for experienced candidates for the following positions:

• Community Relations Manager • Customer Care Representative • Employment Manager • Technology Operations Supervisor • Broadband Installer • Service Technician Review position descriptions and submit an on-line application at www.bendbroadband.com. BendBroadband is a drug free workplace.

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322-7222 or 617-8946 61315 S. Hwy 97 Bend, OR Hairstylist /Nail Tech Excellent opportunity for High Achiever Hourly/ Commission. Call Teresa for details, 541-382-8449.

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Hiring for summer positions. Responsible for providing a safe and enjoyable swimming experience by anticipating, recognizing and managing emergency situations as part of a professional team. Pre-employment drug testing required. EOE. See full details and apply at www.bendparksandrec.org or call 541-706-6111.

Ranch Manager Applicant wanted for a remote Eastern OR ranch. Incl. farming, habitat improvement and maint., equip. knowledge a must, very nice living quarters. Send resumes to Box 15839203, c/o The Bulletin, PO Box 6020, Bend, OR 97708.

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Behavioral Health, Utilization Manager For Accountable Behavioral Health Alliance and Deschutes County.

Apply by 02/19/10. Full time, temporary position in public sector managed behavioral health organization. Details on website. Position located in Bend, OR. Responsible for Mental Health Acute Care UM for Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes counties and outpatient behavioral health UM for Deschutes County. Requires min. 3 yrs of related experience, master’s level Oregon clinical license.

Competitive salary; excellent benefits; relocation assistance possible.

Call (541) 753-8997 or visit our website www.abhabho.org Manufacturing Engineer.

Optics supplier seeks engineer to create, manage local manufacturing division. Requires BA or equivalent in engineering or related field; 3+ years experience in manufacturing management. Details at www.krugeroptical.com/e mployment/. Send resumes to: info@krugeroptical.com.

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City of Madras Equal Opportunity Employer The City of Madras, Oregon is seeking a talented and highly motivated individual to serve as its next Finance Director. After 23 years of service to the City the current Finance Director has retired. Madras is a dynamic, growing community. The City has 36 employees, an $18 million annual budget and is financially stable. The Finance Director is a key member of the City’s management team. The Finance Director plans, organizes and supervises the duties of the Finance Department to ensure accu- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR rate and timely accounting reports, prompt processing and POSITIONS payment of invoices and issuance of statements for accounts The following faculty positions receivable; ensures proper utilization and accounting for genbegin fall 2010 at pay range eral and special funding; facilitates development of the annual $38,109-$49,109 & require a budget and provides financial reporting to the City’s Urban ReMaster's degree.

Medical Assistant newal District. This is a supervisory management position, acMathematics countable for the efficient and effective operations of the City’s Two positions open. Provide inThe Center-Orthopedic & accounting function. This position also serves as the Human Neurosurgical Care seeks struction in all levels of colResource and Risk Management Officer. positive, professional Back lege math courses including The ideal candidate will have a Master in Public Finance or simiOffice Medical Assistant to developmental math. Deadlar field, be experienced with Oregon budget laws including join our team.

Excellent line 2/28/10. completing and advertising local budget documents, and poscomputer skills, medical terSpeech Communication sess at least five years of governmental accounting experience. Provide instruction in speech minology & knowledge of Monthly salary range $5,112 - $7,084 DOQ. Excellent benefit coding preferred. Prior MA communication with emphapackage including fully paid PERS. exp. needed & certification sis on interpersonal & small For application packet, contact Madras City Hall 71 SE D Street preferred. We offer a comgroup communication.

Madras OR 97741 541-475-2344 or go to www.ci.madras.or.us. petitive compensation packDeadline 3/4/10.

Send completed city application form, letter of interest and reage.

Apply online at English sume to “Finance Director Recruitment”, City of Madras, 71 SE Two positions open. Provide inwww.thecenteroregon.com, D Street, Madras OR, 97741.Closing date: Mar. 1, 2010 (4 p.m.). fax resume to (541) struction in reading, writing, 322-2286, or e-mail to & composition. Deadline CONTROLLER hr@thecenteroregon.com 3/8/10.

Accountant/Inventory Manager Oregon’s Premiere Wireless Company has opening for Accountant/Inventory Management position. Must be proficient in QuickBooks & Excel, salary, benefits. For confidential interview, email markj@bendcable.com

Fishing Alaska.

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With any independent job opportunity, please investigate thoroughly.

Use extra caution when applying for jobs online and never provide personal information to any source you may not have researched and deemed to be reputable.

Use extreme caution when responding to ANY online employment ad from out-of-state.

We suggest you call the State of Oregon Consumer Hotline at 1-503-378-4320 For Equal Opportunity Laws: Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industry, Civil Rights Division, 503-731-4075 If you have any questions, concerns or comments, contact: Shawn Antoni Classified Dept.

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Medical Pharmacy Technician Clear One Health Plans Inc. is a regional health insurance company that provides healthcare coverage for over 45,000 people throughout Oregon and Montana. We are focused on being a trusted and knowledgeable health partner for our members, providers and community. In this role you'll work under the direction of a pharmacist, performing pharmacy-related functions, in compliance with department policies and procedures that provide pharmaceutical care for our internal and external customers. This position requires a Bachelor's Degree and a Pharmacy Technician Certification with a minimum of 2 years' experience in a retail pharmacy setting and/or managed care/pharmacy benefit environment.

Basic clinical knowledge of pharmaceutical products.

Knowledge of pharmacy claims processing and systems and advanced proficiency with third party pharmacy benefits plan parameters. Basic computer skills in a Windows Operating System environment including basic proficiency in Word and Excel.

To view the full job description and apply, please visit: www.clearonehp.com/career EOE

Clear One Health Plans Opal Day Spa is seeking a part/full time fully licensed Massage Therapist 541-475-4677 or email beauty@opaldayspa.com

PCB REWORK. Seeking seriously experienced pcb reworker with own tools to work at home removing parts from out of production pcb's.

Part-time piecework. j.michael.elliott@gmail.com Physical Therapist Exciting opportunity in Bend OR. Go to: www.healingbridge.com and see ‘Job Opportunities’.

Police The Sunriver Police Department is accepting applications until 5pm, March 12, for the summer, seasonal auxiliary bike patrol position. Please go to “Job Announcements” at www.sunriversd.org/policepage.htm for position information and application.

Program Coordinator - Transit – Redmond, OR. Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC), is looking for an individual to provide professional support to, and work with, the Deputy Director to develop and operate Cascades East Transit. Cascades East Transit provides public transportation in Central Oregon. Full time position, starting salary range $3,120-$3,310 per month, excellent benefits. Bachelor's degree plus 1 years of work experience in related field or the equivalent combination of education and exp. in related field.

Application and full job description available on the COIC website www.coic.org , at local COIC offices or at Administration – 2363 SW Glacier Place, Redmond, OR 97756. In order to be considered for this position, a completed application must be received by 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 16, 2010, in the Redmond Administration office. Faxed applications will be accepted (541)923-3416. COIC is an EOE employer. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request for individuals with disabilities.

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Salon Envy has a full time station for lease. Great group, dedicated stylists, looking for someone with clientele. Rare opportunity. 541-280-1672 Security See our website for our available Security positions, along with the 42 reasons to join our team! www.securityprosbend.com

Hiring for summer. Teach lifelong swimming skills!

Work in a fun, interactive environment to help kids to get comfortable in the water and teach the basic swimming skills. Pre-employment drug testing required. EOE. Positions available immediately and in the summer. See full details and apply at www.bendparksandrec.org or call 541-706-6111.

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Ski Instructors -For Children Mt. Bachelor is currently accepting applications for new Children’s Ski Instructors!

Applicants must have the experience, ability and willingness to work with Children of all ages. We are seeking certified or uncertified applicants with the minimum ability of balanced parallel skiing. Weekend and school breaks availability required (February 13-17, March 22-26 and April 1-18).

Visit our website www.mtbachelor.com to apply!

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Tele Fundraising for Non-profit Organization Part time permanent AM/PM shifts. Mon.-Fri. $8.40 hr. to start. 541-382-8672

The Bulletin Recommends extra caution when purchasing products or services from out of the area. Sending cash, checks, or credit information may be subjected to F R A U D. For more information about an advertiser, you may call the Oregon State Attorney General’s Office Consumer Protection hotline at 1-877-877-9392.

Accepting resumes' for truck drivers in preparation for spring work. Two years Class A CDL driving experience required with acceptable DMV record. Successful candidates will maintain a quality, professional service oriented attitude while working in a fast, safe, efficient team manner. Benefits include medical, dental, 401k, paid vacation and holidays. EOE/AAE. Please fax resume to 541-749-2024 or e-mail to: cmcginley @hookercreek.net

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Ads published in "Employment Opportunities" include employee and independent positions. Ads for positions that require a fee or upfront investment must be stated.

With any independent job opportunity, please investigate thoroughly.

Use extra caution when applying for jobs online and never provide personal information to any source you may not have researched and deemed to be reputable.

Use extreme caution when responding to ANY online employment ad from out-of-state.

We suggest you call the State of Oregon Consumer Hotline at 1-503-378-4320 For Equal Opportunity Laws: Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industry, Civil Rights Division, 503-731-4075 If you have any questions, concerns or comments, contact: Shawn Antoni Classified Dept , The Bulletin

541-617-7825 Too Much Month At The End Of Your Money?

AVON has the answer for you! Cash, bonuses, prizes, Contact Robin, 541-480-7197

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SAFETY/RISK PROGRAM MANAGER Public Works Department City of Bend Full-time position managing and coordinating the Public Works Department comprehensive safety/risk management program and overseeing the safety program.

Requires Bachelor's degree with major course work in safety engineering, occupational safety and health, or related field, and 3-5 yrs experience in safety and risk management. Demonstrated experience in safety and risk management of public works or construction operations preferred.

Salary range: $53,304 - $73,440 with excellent benefit package.

Application deadline: Noon, February 26.

To apply, City of Bend Employment Application and resume must be received by application deadline to City of Bend, HR, 710 NW Wall St., P.O. Box 431, Bend, OR 97709. FAX: (541) 385-6676. Inquiries: (541) 388-5574.

See website at www.ci.bend.or.us for mandatory application form and details.

EEO/ADA EMPLOYER Sales

Loan Officer (floater) Mid Oregon Credit Union is looking for a dynamic, energetic salesperson possessing a strong desire to help our members better themselves financially. This position is based primarily in our Bend branch, but the successful candidate will travel between branches located in the tri-county area to fill in as needed for other Loan Officers. Duties include opening new accounts, processing, approving and disbursing loan applications, doing outbound calling to pursue additional credit union business, and educating members about the features and benefits of the credit union's products and services.

Minimum 1-2 years new accounts and/or consumer lending experience.

See our website at www.midoregon.com for more information. Please send resume, application, and cover letter to: Mid Oregon FCU, Attn: Human Resources, P.O. Box 6749, Bend, OR 97708.

Mid Oregon Credit Union is a drug-free workplace

INTERPRETER ( 105- 10) – Health Services.

On-call positions $13.72 - $18.76 per hour. Deadline: OPEN UNTIL SUFFICIENT POOL OF ON-CALL STAFF HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE II (104-10) – Public Health Division. Part-time (70% FTE) position $2,719 - $3,720 per month for a 120.87 hour work month (28 hr/wk).

Deadline: FRIDAY, 02/12/10.

PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER (100-10) – Behavioral Health Division. Full-time position $4,841 - $6,626 per month for a 172.67 hour work month. Will consider job share or less than full-time. Deadline: OPEN UNTIL FILLED. SUMMER INTERN (102-10) – District Attorney’s Office. Temporary position $12.00 per hour for a 40-hour work week.

Deadline: FRIDAY, 02/26/10.

TELECOMMUNICATOR (106-10) – 911 Service District. Two full-time positions available $2,964 - $4,754 per month for a 182.50 hour work month. Deadline: FRIDAY, 02/26/10.

TO OBTAIN APPLICATIONS FOR THE ABOVE LISTED POSITIONS APPLY TO: Deschutes County Personnel Dept., 1300 NW Wall Street, Suite 201, Bend, OR 97701 (541) 3886553. Application and Supplemental Questionnaire (if applicable) required and accepted until 5:00 p.m. on above listed deadline dates. Visit our website at www. co.deschutes.or.us.

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1 Month Rent Free 1550 NW Milwaukee. $595/mo. Large 2 Bdrm, 1 Bath, Gas heat. W/D incl.

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Newer 2 bdrm., 1.5 bath condo, attached single garage, covered back patio, W/D hook ups $585/mo.+dep. W/S/G paid. 541-923-4223 Old Mill Townhouse, 2 bdrm., 2.5 bath, Loft, W/D, Gas Fireplace, 2 Car Garage, No Smoking/Pets, $900/mo.

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LOCAL MONEY We buy secured trust deeds & note, some hard money loans. Call Pat Kelley 541-382-3099 extension 13.

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Loans and Mortgages WARNING The Bulletin recommends you use caution when you provide personal information to companies offering loans or credit, especially those asking for advance loan fees or companies from out of state.

If you have concerns or questions, we suggest you consult your attorney or call CONSUMER HOTLINE, 1-877-877-9392.

BANK TURNED YOU DOWN? Private party will loan on real estate equity. Credit, no problem, good equity is all you need. Call now. Oregon Land Mortgage 388-4200.

Easy Qualifying Mortgage Equity Loans: Any property, License #275, www.GregRussellOregon.com Call 1-888-477-0444, 24/7.

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Have an item to sell quick? If it’s under $500 you can place it in The Bulletin Classifieds for $ 10 - 3 lines, 7 days $ 16 - 3 lines, 14 days (Private Party ads only) Olympics Condo in Whistler, 2/14-2/18, $1500 OBO. 2 bdrm., 2 bath, sleeps 6, full kitchen, parking, on ski slope.

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1 bdrm., 1 bath guest house, Smith Rock area, care taker, yard work, potential for employment, good credit refs., criminal background check req., looking for the right person, male or female, now taking applications, please make response to: Bulletin Classified Ad, PO BOX 599, Terrebonne, OR 97760. $600/mo. incl. all utils.

632 1 Bedroom, cute, clean & quiet, in Bend, new paint & carpet, private deck, W/S/G, heat, elec., TV incl., hi-speed internet? Close to shopping no pets or smoking. $525 mo. 541-788-8999.

Desert Garden Apts., 705 NW 10th St. Prineville, 541-447-1320, 1 Bdrm. apts.

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PENNBROOK MANAGEMENT (541) 617-3451 www.pennbrook.com 1133 NW Wall St. -50% off 1st mo with 7 mo lease! 1 bdrm/ 1 bath condo. Great room, full kitchen, balcony, a/c, w/s/g paid. no pets. $795. Available now.

1399 NE Elk Ct #1-50% off 1 mo with a 6 mo lease! 2 bdrm/ 2.5 bath townhome. Fully applianced kitchen, utility room with full size washer and dryer. W/S and landscaping paid for. $795- available now! N o pets or smoking.

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Adult Foster Care in Bulletin is now offering a Redmond, has private The LOWER, MORE AFFORDABLE room & bath open, quality care and home cooking.

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A furnished room in Awbrey Heights, no smoking, etc. $350+dep 541-388-2710

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STUDIOS & KITCHENETTES: Furnished room, TV w/ cable, micro. & fridge. Util. & linens, new owners, $145-$165/wk.

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1 bdrm, 1 bath, 660 sq. ft. $525 month, $250 dep.

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1005 Ross Rd. 1/2 Off First Month Rent 2 bdrm, 2 bath, all appliances, fenced yard, single garage $645. Call 541-382-7727

Condominiums & Townhomes For Rent A Can’t Miss, Quiet 2 bdrm, 2 bath townhouse, views, great location, gas fireplace, W/S/G paid, no smoking/ pets, $700. 541-312-2966.

Hospital District, 55+, 2/2, 1 level, attached garage, A/C, gas heat, from $850-$999.

Call Fran, 541-633-9199. www.cascadiamgmt.com

Large 2 bdrm, 2.5 bath townhouse. Loft, forced air with a/c, dbl attached garage, overlooks R.E. golf course. $1000/mo and $1000 dep.

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$200 Off First Month’s Rent 432 NE Quimby #1/ 2 1 bdrm/ 1 bath, all appl. incld w/d, w/s/g paid. Month to Month lease. $595+ dep.

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2 Bdrm, 1½ bath, all appliances, washer/dryer hookups, single car garage, water /sewer/garbage paid. $675.

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2721 NE MESA CT. 1/2 off 1st mo. rent!

2 bedroom, 1½ bath, walk-in closet, patio, garage, w/s/g paid! $625 mo. 385-1515

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2 bdrm, 2½ bath, all appliances, gas fireplace, garage, Water/sewer paid! $750 mo. 541-382-7727

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$100 Move In Special Beautiful 2 bdrm, 1 bath, quiet complex, covered parking, W/D hookups, near St. Charles. No application fee. $595/mo. 541-385-6928.

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406 NW Bond St. Charming townhouse, 3 bdrm/ 1 bath, with garage, 896 sq. ft., w/s/g pd., pets neg. $800+dep.

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426 NE QUIMBY #1 Nice 1 bed, 1 bath unit with full kitchen incl. dishwasher, washer/dryer, additional storage, close to shopping and medical facilities. $495/incl W/S/G/lawn maint. Avail 12/12 ABOVE & BEYOND PROP MGMT 389-8558

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$495-$525 Lovely 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments in small quiet complex, close to shopping, HUD approved, no smoking, cat OK. 1000 NE Butler Market Road 541-633-7533.

854 NE Hidden Valley #1, 2 & 3. 1/2 off 1st mo.rent!

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541-385-5809 NE 2 Bdrm., 1.5 bath 4-plex townhome, 960 sq.ft., all new carpet & paint, W/S/G paid, utility room, $495/mo.

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NO MOVE IN FEE 1/2 Off 1st Month! $580-$590 Carports and W/D hookups Fox Hollow Apts.

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Long term townhomes/homes for rent in Eagle Crest & Terrebonne. Appl. included, Spacious 2 & 3 bdrm., with garages, 541-504-7755.

1015 Roanoke Ave., $610 mo., $550 dep., W/S/G paid, 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath townhouse, view of town, near college, no smoking/pets. 420-9848.

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1 and 2 bdrm, 1 bath units, $475 & $575. Near Old Mill & TRG, nice neighborhood, no smoking/dogs.

541-815-5494.

(Just 3 Apartments Left) Discovery Park Lodge For Seniors 55+ Located in NW Crossing Spacious 1 Bedroom Apt. Just $532 mo.

Refrigerator, Stove, Dishwasher, Washer & Dryer Hookups, Key-coded Bldg.

Access, Designated Parking, Community room, Computer Lab. W/S/G Paid. Call Today!

541-312-9940 • TTY 711

Rare Vacancy, one of a kind, 2 bdrm. apt. on one of Tumalo’s finest horse farms.

Best mtn. views. 1200 sq. ft. + huge storage. Appl., W/D, cable & pellet stove incl. $650/mo. 541-383-4653

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387 SW GARFIELD 3 Bdrm., 2.5 bath duplex close to Old Mill. Single car garage, balcony off master, gas fireplace. $895/mo. Avai.l 2/1 (2 units avail.)

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Westside Condos, 2 bdrm., 1 bath, $595; 1 bdrm., 1 bath, $550; woodstove, W/S/G paid, W/D hookups.

(541)480-3393 or 610-7803

61324 SW BLAKELY RD.

Westside Village Apts.

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1459 NW Albany 1st Month Free with 1 year lease or ½ Off first month with 7 month lease. * 2 bdrm $550 * * 3 bdrm $595 * W/S/G paid, cat or small dog OK with deposit.

Call 382-7727 or 388-3113.

1-2 bdrm. W/S/G paid. $575 -$595 mo.

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Apt./Multiplex SE Bend 1/2 Off First Month’s Rent 838 SE Stratford Ct. 2 bdrm/ 2 bath, single garage, all appl. inld, 1000 sq, w/s pd. Pets neg. $675+dep.

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1228 SW 17th St. -2 Months free rent with a 1 year lease! 2 bdrm/ 1 bath apartments and 2 bdrm/ 1.5 bath townhomes. Full kitchens, greatroom with private patios.

Seasonal swimming pool and a fenced playground. 3 on-site laundry facilities.

On-site manager and maintenance. W/S/G paid. $495-$615 mo. Pets considered. No smoking.

Eagle Rock Apartments and Townhomes-call us at 541-923-0248 for a viewing 1714 SW Juniper-50% off the first month with a 6 month lease! -Newer 2 bdrm/ 1.5 bath townhome.

Fully equipped kitchen, utility closet with W/D hookups. Gas fireplace, storage and back patio.

W/S/G paid. On-site parking. Close to the High School and Nolan Town center. $550 mo. No smoking or pets. Call us at 541-923-0248 for a viewing 211 NW Greenwood Ave. -$200 off 1st 3 months with a 6 month lease! -New Luxury senior apartments. 1 and 2 bedroom units with fireplaces, w/d, fully equipped kitchens, balcony and lots of storage. Community center and on-site manager. Pets welcome!

Located close to Senior center and hospital. Prices from $550/$650.

Cottonwood Senior Apartments-call us at 541-548-7111 for a viewing

2/1.5 $545, Clean Units, Great Location, Move In Special, Hud OK, 2007 Timber Ave. The Rental Shop. 541-389-2260 www.rentmebend.com 2553 SW 20th St.- 2/1 duplex, garage, yard, W/D hookup, on cul-de-sac, $600 + dep, incl. yard maint., No pets/smoking. 541-382-1015

2613 NW Cedar $695 $99 MOVES YOU IN! 3 months FREE cable! 3 large bedrooms , 2.5 bath, 1200 sq ft. w/s/g/l pd. 541-526-1700 www.firstratepm.com

2930 SW Juniper Ave $795 1/2 OFF FIRST MONTH! 6 mo FREE cable! Newer 3 bed, 2.5 ba, 1 car gar. Lg fenced yard, lg gas f/p. w/d included.

541-526-1700

438 NW 19th St. #29 $750 Newer TH, 2 bed, 2.5 ba, 2 car gar, lg deck, all kitchen appl., gas f/p. w/s/l pd.

6541-526-1700 www.firstratepm.com

$99 + deposit Move-in Special for Feb. Includes stg. units, carport, close to schools, on-site laundry, non-smoking units, dog run. Approved pets okay. 541-923-1907 OBSIDIAN APARTMENTS www.redmondrents.com

Ask About Move-in Redmond Multi-plex Units 2018 SW Salmon - $625 2/2 townhomes. Sgl garage, gas fireplace, w/d hookup.

2755/2757 SW Umatilla $650 2/2 duplex near ball park. patio, fenced back yard, pet considered.

1817 SW Deschutes $625 2/1, near swim center, large living/ dining/kitchen. gas heat & air. fenced backyard.

3344 SW Volcano $650 2-story 3/2 upstairs, 1/2 bath down. All appliances, w/d in huge kitchen. fenced back.

1555 SW Rimrock $750 split level 3/2½, tile floors, mstr has 2 closets, pets neg..

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Redmond Homes 528 NW 17th St. #40 -$600 2/2 mfd home in family park, great layout, dining buffet built in. All kitchen appliances and full size laundry hookup. Storage shed on site.

2440 NW Cedar Ave. $900 Fantastic 3/2 home, gas fireplace, formal dining, French doors, sitting room, walk-in closet. Fenced & landscaped.

2816 SW Volcano Cir. $925 3+/2 home on corner lot, nicely landscaped. pergo floors, tile kitchen. library/bonus room, lovely master w/tile shower, mirror door closets, gas heat. Pets considered.

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Small cute studio, all utilities paid, close to downtown and Old Mill. $450/mo., dep. $425, no pets. 330-9769 or 480-7870.

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Avail. Now! 2 Bdrm, 1 bath, w/large kitchen, appl., W/D hookup, attached carport, W/S paid, No pets/smoking, $550/mo. 541-382-7310

1/2 Off First Mo. Rent 2 bdrm, 2½ bath. All appliances, garage, w/s/g paid. $650 mo. Call 382-7727

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385-1515 www.rentingoregon.com 61391 Blakely Road, 2 bdrm., 1 bath, Great Duplex near Old Mill. W/S/G paid. $550/mo.

Indoor cat considered.

541-419-2296 JAN. SPECIAL, $100 OFF 1ST MO. RENT! A Quiet, Spacious 2 Big Bdrm. townhouse apt., 1.5 bath, W/D hookups, patio, fenced yard, W/S/G paid, no pets. starting at $495+/mo.

179 SW Hayes Ave., past Mike’s Fence Center.

541-382-0162

$395 2 Bdrm, 1 bath triplex, range, fridge, dishwasher, on site laundry, covered patio, locked storage, yard maint, w/s/g paid, close to downtown. 1042 Black Butte $550 2 bdrm, 1 bath duplex, range, fridge, dishwasher, wood stove, washer/dryer, new carpet, single garage, w/s/g paid.

1212 SW 18th St. $550 First Month $275! 2 bdrm, 1.5 bath Condo, range, fridge, dishwasher, washer/dryer, gas forced air heat, deck, new paint, small pet considered, single garage.

2610 SW 23rd St. $595 First Month $395! 2 bdrm, 2 bath duplex, 1000 sq.ft., range, fridge, dishwasher, w/d hookups, gas heat, yard maint. sprinklers, single garage w/opener. 1912 NW Elm $625 $100 Off First Month! 2 bdrm, 2 bath 4-plex, 1060 sq. ft. range, fridge, dishwasher, micro., w/d hookups, gas forced air heat, gas fireplace, walk in closets, patio, fenced, sprinklers, w/s/g paid, yard maint., single garage w/opener.

1560 SW Reindeer $625 3 Bdrm, 2 bath duplex, range, fridge, dishwasher, w/d hookups, fenced, sprinklers, w/s/g paid, single garage.

1210 SW 18th St. $695 1/2 Off First Month! 2 bdrm, 2 bath duplex, 1300 sq. ft., range, fridge, dishwasher, micro., w/d hookups, gas forced air heat, gas fireplace, bonus room, yard maint., sprinklers, w/s/g paid, single garage w/opener, new carpet/paint, immaculate. 556 NE Negus Loop $795 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath townhouse, 1500 sq. ft., range, fridge, dishwasher, micro., washer/dryer, gas forced air heat, gas fireplace, pantry, walk in closet, fenced, w/d pd., dbl garage w/opener. 2885 SW Indian Circle

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Sunriver - 3 Rivers - LaPine GREAT SELECTION

1220 Sq.ft. light industrial, w/office & bath, large overhead door, great location, $650/mo. plus deposit., 541-480-7546 or 480-7541.

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1944½ NW 2nd St NEED STORAGE OR A CRAFT STUDIO? 570 sq. ft. garage, Wired, Sheetrocked, Insulated, Wood or Electric Heat $275. Call 541-382-7727

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244 SW Rimrock Way

541-923-5008 2 bdrm, 1 bath units starting at $500 Clean, energy efficient nonsmoking units, w/patios, 2 on-site laundry rooms, storage units avail. Located close to schools, pools, skateboard park, ballfield, shopping center and tennis courts. Pet friendly with new large dog run, some large breeds with mgr approval. See us at www.redmondrents.com AVAIL. NOW (2) nice duplexes, quiet neighborhood 2 bdrm., 2 bath, 1 car garage, fenced backyard, fully landscaped, more info call 541-545-1825.

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TERREBONNE $635 2 bdrm, 1 bath mfd, range, new fridge, dishwasher, washer/dryer, elect. forced air heat, storage shed, large yard, partially fenced, single garage. 8211 6th St. $650 3 bdrm, 2 bath, MFD, on 2 acres, range, fridge, dishwasher, w/d hookups, covered deck, forced air heat.

5757 SW Shad

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The Bulletin is now offering a LOWER, MORE AFFORDABLE Rental rate! If you have a home to rent, call a Bulletin Classified Rep. to get the new rates and get your ad started ASAP! 541-385-5809 Westside Cottage: 1+1+loft & upper deck, fenced, gas heat, alley parking, across from Columbia Park & River, $195,000, 541-617-5787.

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Houses for Rent NE Bend 1/2 off 1st mo. rent. $200 security deposit on 12-mo. lease. . Screening fee waived on all sized units.

• Studios to 3 bdrms.

• Units from $395 to $550 • Lots of amenities • Pet Friendly, w/s/g paid THE BLUFFS APTS. 340 Rimrock Way, Redmond 541-548-8735 GSL Properties Foxborough, cute 3/2 fenced yard 1200 sq.ft. W/D $925+dep. 541-389-2260 The Rental Shop www.rentmebend.com FREE 1st month rent! 2 bdrm., 2 bath, all kitchen appl., W/D hook ups, garage, fenced yard. w/s/g pd. $650 mo. + dep. 541-480-7806 WINTER SPECIAL for new Leases 2445 SW Canal Blvd.

Charming 1 bdrm, nicely landscaped, $495/mo. On-site laundry, community room, w/s/g incl. Small pet ok.

Call 541-923-1018.

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Houses for Rent General 3/2, 3.3 Acres, dbl. garage, between Bend & Redmond, energy efficient, 1300 sq.ft., partial mountain view, $875 mo., David, 541-388-0232.

Adorable 3/2, 1 acre, wood floors, new carpet/paint, remolded, 3 decks, carport, shed, garden area, $800/mo.

CRR. 541-788-6240 BEND RENTALS • Starting at $495. Furnished also avail.

For pictures & details www.alpineprop.com 541-385-0844 PENNBROOK MANAGEMENT (541) 617-3451 www.pennbrook.com 2734 NW Three Sisters4 bdrm/ 4 bath home with amazing Mountain views!

Sunken living room, dining area, bonus off master suite, family room with wet bar, 3 car garage, large deck, hot tub, gas fireplace, A/C, w/d. No pets. $2,300/mo. Available now 325 Flagline- 3 bdrm/ 3.5 bath, 2400sf. Great home in a beautiful and very quiet street. Fully applianced kitchen, back deck, open great room with gas fireplace. $1,500 month.

No pets. Available 2/22/10 19413 Ironwood Circle-Broken Top- 3 bdrm/ 3.5 bath Tyrion Sky townhome. All bedrooms include private baths.

Greatroom with gas fireplace, dining area and breakfast nook, fully applianced kitchen, utility room with w/d hook ups. Office/ den on main floor. Double car garage, deck and landscaping is included. N o smoking or pets please. $1,350 per month.

Available3/1/10 Powell Butte- 2800 sq. ft. custom built home on 5 acres, incredible views. A must see! 3 bdrm/3 bath, Wrap around deck, extra storage. $1250 mo w/lease + deposit/fee.

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$1195, 3 bdrm., 2.5 bath, loft, 2120 sq.ft., new paint, A/C, 2 fireplace, dbl garage, fenced yard, by Costco, 2188 Clairaway, 541-389-8901.

20807 NE CROSS CT. Single level, clean, 3 bdrm.

2 bath home. Large yard, 2 car garage, room for small RV. Pets considered. $775/mo.

ABOVE & BEYOND PROP MGMT 389-8558 www.aboveandbeyondmanagement.com

2328 NE Moonlight Dr. 1/2 off 1st months rent!

3 bdrm & 2 bath, all appliances, dbl garage, fenced yard. $850. 541-382-7727

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2745 Cordata Dr. 3 bdrm, 2 bath, new carpet, all appliances, single garage, large back yard! $795. w/s/g paid. 541-382-7727

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2841 Baroness Place, 3 bdrm., 2 bath, quiet cul-de-sac, new carpet, double garage, water & sewer paid, $895/mo.

541-350-2087 2995 NE SABER Dr. 1/2 off 1st months rent!

3 bdrm, 2 bath, utility room, fenced yard, dbl garage. $825. 541-382-7727

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2 Bdrm., 1 Bath, huge living room, new kitchen, paint & windows, plenty of storage, fenced yard, $745/mo. W/S paid. 541-419-4520

1505 NW JACKSONVILLE 1/2 off 1st months rent!!

Westside! 3 bdrm, all appliances, woodstove, fenced backyard & carport. $810.

541-382-7727

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Houses for Rent Furnished Great Location 2 Bdrm., 2.5 bath, dbl. garage, close to River Trail, util, hi speed internet & cable incl., no smoking, pet? 541-410-0592.

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1944 NW 2nd St Westside!

2 bdrm, appliances, gas heat, garage, fenced yard - $750 541-382-7727

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63241 Britta 1700 sq. ft., 3 bdrm/ 2 bath, 2 car garage. $950+dep.

1/2 off 1st full month Viking Property Management LLC 416-0191 Beautiful Classic Home, 4+ bdrm., 2 bath near river, incl. W/D $1250 plus utilities. No smoking, pet considered. 541-419-7238.

On 10 Acres between Sisters & Bend, 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 1484 sq.ft. mfd., family room w/ wood stove, all new carpet & paint, +1800 sq.ft. shop, fenced for horses, $1095, 541-480-3393 or 610-7803.

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Houses for Rent SE Bend SPACIOUS, NEWER,lodge style, single story, 3/2, A/C, fireplace, covered porch, dbl. garage, in Mtn. Pines next to Bend Country Club, avail. now, no smoking, $1050 incl. gardener, 541-389-2244.

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Houses for Rent SW Bend 2 Bdrm., 1.5 bath 1084 sq.ft. newer carpet & paint, woodstove, garage fenced yard on .92 acre lot $795 (541)480-3393 or 610-7803.

60889 Granite Dr. , pet friendly 1 half acre fenced elevated lot, 3 bdrm., 2 bath w/master suite, A/C, garage, RV parking $825 mo. (1st+dep.)

541-948-2738.

835 NE Locksley Dr. ONE YR LEASE! Large NEWER PRIOR MODEL HOME! : 4 bdrm, 2.5 bath, all appliances, fenced yard, double garage! $1195 mo.

541-382-7727

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Newly Renovated 3 bedroom NE home close to shopping.

Short or long-term lease, 726 NE Kearney Ave., $1100+ dep. 541-382-7376 or 541-350-9501.

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2266 Sq.ft. Commercial Building for Rent, 721 First St., Culver Oregon, on Hwy 361.

For more info. call 541-475-7577,541-325-6394 Light Industrial, various sizes, North and South Bend locations, office w/bath from $400/mo. 541-317-8717 New Commercial Office Space for Lease in Redmond Business Plaza, 4 spaces, 400-1200 sq.ft., to be built this year. Exterior to be colorful split faced block on NW 6th St.Located in Downtown overlay. Ideal time to choose your tenant neighbors. Rent starting at $0.89/ sq.ft. NNN. Good parking.

Call for plan details. Ideal space for CPA, Insurance Agent, Independent Small Business. 541-484-4733

Office/Warehouse space for rent: 3584 sq.ft., 827 Business Way, 1st mo. + $400 dep., Contact Paula, 541-678-1404.

Mobile/Mfd. for Rent Culver MHP has a space avail. for either single or dbl.-wide home. Older mobile in good cond. welcome. Estab. family park in walking distance to exc. schools & shopping. For info. call. 541-546-7668.

The Bulletin is now offering a LOWER, MORE AFFORDABLE Rental rate! If you have a home to rent, call a Bulletin Classified Rep. to get the new rates and get your ad started ASAP! 541-385-5809

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541-322-7253

705 Private Money for Real Estate Loans no credit, bad credit OK. Alan, Redwood Financial Services EHO 541-419-3000 (ML-3100)

* Real Estate Agents * * Appraisers * * Home Inspectors * Etc. The Real Estate Services classification is the perfect place to reach prospective B U Y E R S AND SELLERS of real estate in Central Oregon. To place an ad call 385-5809

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Commercial/Investment Properties for Sale 1.91 Acres, 1644 sq.ft.

Warehouse, zoned M1 Industrial, multiple use, retail, office, business, RV park, mobile home park, along beautiful creek, off Madras Hwy on Gardner Rd. in Prineville. Close to Perfect For U TV & Appliance, Round Butte Seed, & High Desert RV, $295,000. Owner will carry w/50% Down.

541-815-2930.

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MT. BACHELOR VILLAGE C O N D O , ski house #3, end unit, 2 bdrm, sleeps 6, complete remodel $197,000 furnished. 541-749-0994.

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Office/Retail Space for Rent An Office with bath, various sizes and locations from $250 per month, including utilities. 541-317-8717 Downtown Bend Offices and Workstations. The Old Cigar Building. Very Hip. Starting at $150 per month. Call Kat for more info. 541-306-3397

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OFFICE/ RETAIL SPACE 6075 SW Rim Rd, CRR $795 3 bed, 2 ba, 1.7 acres, shop and storage shed. Lg fenced yd.

Horses and outside pets welcome w/deposit 526-1700 www.firstratepm.com Live on a Clydesdale Ranch 2200 sq.ft., 3 bdrm., 2 bath, triple garage, incl. use of a 4 stall barn, no indoor pets, new carpet throughout new blinds in great room beautiful view of Cascades, $1200 mo. incl. yard care, references required call 541-923-3704.

From 275 sq.ft. - 6,694 sq. ft.

Call Cheryl Gardner, Herb Arathoon, or Tara Donaca for more information

Please check your ad on the first day it runs to make sure it is correct. Sometimes instructions over the phone are misunderstood and an error can occur in your ad. If this happens to your ad, please contact us the first day your ad appears and we will be happy to fix it as soon as we can. Deadlines are: Weekdays 12:00 noon for next day, Sat. 11:00 a.m. for Sunday; Sat. 12:00 for Monday.

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Lots (2) Buildable R2 lots, 9200 sq.ft, triplex, duplex, with 2 bdrm., 1 bath rental positive cash flow last 25 yrs. Map 151605BD Tax Lot#1400. $140,000 Owner Will Carry. $20,000 at 8% 602-510-3064.

Large Mountain view corner lot, near Old Mill, drastically reduced, $75,000, will carry contract, please call 541-610-5178.

WOW! A 1.7 Acre Level lot in SE Bend. Super Cascade Mountain Views, area of nice homes & BLM is nearby too!

Only $199,950.

Randy Schoning, Broker, John L. Scott, 541-480-3393.

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NEAR RIVER AND PARK 1-1/3 +/- acres , 3 bdrm, 2 bath, pond, 4 car garage + studio/office. Owner/broker $347,500. 541-633-3033.

Proffessional Offices for Counselor/Therapist Group in La Pine, exc. parking & location, $150 per month. Please call 541-536-7777.

682 - Farms, Ranches and Acreage 687 - Commercial for Rent/Lease 693 - Office/Retail Space for Rent REAL ESTATE 705 - Real Estate Services 713 - Real Estate Wanted 719 - Real Estate Trades 726 - Timeshares for Sale 732 - Commercial/Investment Properties for Sale 738 - Multiplexes for Sale 740 - Condo/Townhomes for Sale 744 - Open Houses 745 - Homes for Sale 746 - Northwest Bend Homes 747 - Southwest Bend Homes 748 - Northeast Bend Homes 749 - Southeast Bend Homes 750 - Redmond Homes 753 - Sisters Homes 755 - Sunriver/La Pine Homes 756 - Jefferson County Homes 757 - Crook County Homes 762 - Homes with Acreage 763 - Recreational Homes and Property 764 - Farms and Ranches 771 - Lots 773 - Acreages 775 - Manufactured/Mobile Homes 780 - Mfd. /Mobile Homes with Land

Homes for Sale PUBLISHER'S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, marital status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-877-0246. The toll free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

Condominiums & Townhomes For Sale

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13177 SW Chipmunk Rd, CRR $725 3 bed, 2 ba, 1 acre, fenced pasture, wood floors, storage shed, very private.

541-526-1700 www.firstratepm.com 2 Bdrm, 1 bath, w/9 acres irrigated pasture, tenant to irrigate, $850/mo., horse ok, 22170 Nelson Rd., Bend, 541-385-5911,408-209-8920

RENTALS 603 - Rental Alternatives 604 - Storage Rentals 605 - Roommate Wanted 616 - Want To Rent 627 - Vacation Rentals & Exchanges 630 - Rooms for Rent 631 - Condo/Townhomes for Rent 632 - Apt./Multiplex General 634 - Apt./Multiplex NE Bend 636 - Apt./Multiplex NW Bend 638 - Apt./Multiplex SE Bend 640 - Apt./Multiplex SW Bend 642 - Apt./Multiplex Redmond 646 - Apt./Multiplex Furnished 648 - Houses for Rent General 650 - Houses for Rent NE Bend 652 - Houses for Rent NW Bend 654 - Houses for Rent SE Bend 656 - Houses for Rent SW Bend 658 - Houses for Rent Redmond 659 - Houses for Rent Sunriver 660 - Houses for Rent La Pine 661 - Houses for Rent Prineville 662 - Houses for Rent Sisters 663 - Houses for Rent Madras 664 - Houses for Rent Furnished 671 - Mobile/Mfd. for Rent 675 - RV Parking 676 - Mobile/Mfd. Space

Acreages 2.26 ACRES, NE Bend, custom home site, all util. to middle of property, $285,000. 541-306-7357 See www.bigbrick.com/3590

260 Acres, close to Bend working corrals, finished shop, hay barn over 2000 sq.ft. home $570,000. Randy Wilson, United Country Real Estate. 541-589-1521.

Madras: 320 acres range land, Cascade Mtn views.

Owner will fence & drill well.

Thru fence Forest Service 150 cow (a.u.) grazing permit. $370,000.

Dave Molony, owner 503-804-2652

Madras, Oregon: 80 acre farm ground, 35 acre Deschutes water right, exc. bldg. site approved by state, exc. view of Jefferson, Hood & Gateway valley, water & elec. at road. Borders BLM on east side, very private, exc. piece of buildable property.

541-475-6401,509-526-9248 Sisters, 5 acres +/- , mountain view, paved streets and utilities at property. Agents Welcome $324,900, flatfeelisting.com/1893, MLS# 2909663, 541-306-0046, Very Private, 10 acres, mtn. views, well studded w/ old Juniper, CEC at property line, Avion water near by, 7 mi. from Costco. 541-617-0613

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Manufactured/ Mobile Homes Affordable Housing of Oregon *Mobile Home Communities*

Own your Home 4 Price of Rent!

Starting at $100 per mo+space Central Or. 541-389-1847 Broker Bank owned, financing available, newer home, excellent condition in Senior Park, 2 bdrm., 2 bath, garage, handicap ramp. Call John, 541-536-4209

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Avail. Now, clean 2 bdrm., 2 bath, attached garage, large deck, no pets, Mtn. View School, $795/mo. 1st+last+ dep. 541-382-3672 Horse Property First Month’s Rent Free 26570 Horsell Rd. - Alfalfa 3 bdrm/ 2 bath, lrge barn, irrigated pasture, all appl., wd frple. pets neg.$995+dep.

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NOTICE: All real estate advertised here in is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or intention to make any such preferences, limitations or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of this law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

The Bulletin Classified Small 3 bdrm, 2 bath, $800 month + deposits, small pet negotiable. No smoking.

63203 Wishing Well Lane.

541- 382-1059.

61388 Blakely Road, pet friendly, 1/2 acre fenced lot, 1700 sq.ft., 3 bdrm., 2 bath A/C garage w/loft storage, slag lot privacy, separate living/family room $925 mo.

(1st+dep)541-948-2738.

Have an item to sell quick? If it’s under $500 you can place it in The Bulletin Classifieds for $ 10 - 3 lines, 7 days $ 16 - 3 lines, 14 days (Private Party ads only) First Months Rent Free 61654/ 61677 SW Cedarwood 2 bdrm/1 bath or 2bdrm/ 2 bath mfd. home, w/d, pets neg. $675+dep.

CR Property Management 318-1414

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•GREAT NW LOCATION - Adorable Older 2 bdrm, 1 bath house with garage and usable basement. $700 mo.

•DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE 3 bdrm, 1½ bath townhome w/W/D hookups and extra storge. $725 mo. incl. WST. • PEACEFUL SERENITY Nice 3 bdrm, 2 bath mfd home on Huge Lot in DRW. Must see. $725 mo.

•MOUNTAIN VIEWS w/vacant land in back. 1114 sq. ft. 3 bdrm, 2 bath house in NE. Fenced backyard, garage (small dogs ONLY considered) $750/ mo. FREE MO. with 9 mo MO. LEASE. •NEWER TOWNHOMES 3 bdrm, 2.5 bath with garage, & W/D included. Gas heat. Not far from Old Mill Dist. $775/ mo. includes WST per mo.

•SITS A LITTLE ABOVE IT ALL 3 bdrm, 2 bath with interesting decks & dbl. garage. NE home. $775/ mo.

•CUTE NE TOWNHOME! 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath with sgl. car garage & W/D included. $750/ mo. W/S Included.

•TERRIFIC HOUSE IN NE CUL-DE-SAC 3 bdrm, 2 bath includes W/D. Fenced back yard, dbl. garage. $795/ mo.

•OB RILEY RD. Acreage Privacy 3½ acres. 3 bdrm, 2 bath farm home. Fireplace, dbl. garage. W/D incl. $850/mo.

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Each entry requires a $10 entry fee that will directly benefit the NIE program

1/2 off 1st mo! 3 bdrm., 2 bath, ~1200 sq.ft.,very nice, dbl. garage, fenced yard, $775, 2840 SW Pumice Ave, See Craigslist. 541-923-6649

1. DROP YOUR PHOTO OFF at 1777 SW Chandler Avenue, Bend, OR 2. MAIL YOUR PHOTO to Pet Pals Contest, The Bulletin, P.O. Box 6020, Bend, OR 97708-6020 3. EMAIL YOUR PHOTO to petpals@bendbulletin.com 4. ENTER YOUR PHOTO ON-LINE to www.bendbulletin.com/petpals Please include your pet’s name and all your contact information including email address.

Make your payment payable to: The Bulletin/Pet Pals

3 Bdrm, 2 bath, 1031 sq.ft., fenced yard, dbl. garage, $850/mo., $600 dep., pets neg., drive by first at 1526 NE 4th St., call 541-280-6235

Clean, 3 bdrm., 2 bath dbl. garage 13879 SW Cinder Dr., CRR. $850 mo., 1st/last/dep.

No smoking pet neg.

(541)350-1660 or 504-8545

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RULES: $10 per entry. Submitted photos will not be returned and will become the property of The Bulletin. The Bulletin reserves the right to reuse photos for any future use at its discretion. On-line photos must be uploaded as a jpg attachment at high quality resolution. Bulletin employees and their immediate families may enter but are not permitted to win the contest.

Photos uploaded to site may take up to 72 hours to be approved for viewing.

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Motorhomes

Travel Trailers

Fifth Wheels

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Polaris Phoenix 2005, 2X4, 200 CC, new

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rear end, new tires, runs excellent $1800 OBO, 541-932-4919.

Snowmobiles

Polaris XP Ranger 700 2005, 4x4, 850 Yamaha 700cc 2001 1 Mtn. Max $2800 OBO, 1 recarbed $2200 O B O low mi., trailer $750, $5000 FOR ALL, 541-536-2116.

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Motorcycles And Accessories CRAMPED FOR CASH? Use classified to sell those items you no longer need.

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hours, $4950, 541-420-7192.

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Yamaha 350 1994 4x4, exc. cond., racks front & rear $1900. Also ATV Big Tex 5x14 trailer 2006 with drop ramp $1100 or will sell as package. 541-382-4115.

Harley Davidson 1200 XL-C 2005, stage 2 kit, Vance & Hines Pipes, lots of chrome, must see, $8000, 541-408-7020

18.5’ Reinell 2003, 4.3L/V6, 100 hrs., always garaged, beautiful boat, many extras to incl. stereo, depth finder, two tops, travel cover & matching bow canvas, $13,500 OBO. 541-504-7066 19’ Blue Water Executive Overnighter 1988, very low hours, been in dry storage for 12 years, new camper top, 185HP I/O Merc engine, all new tires on trailer, $7995 OBO, 541-447-8664.

19 FT. Thunderjet Luxor 2007, w/swing away dual axle tongue trailer, inboard motor, great fishing boat, service contract, built in fish holding tank, canvass enclosed, less than 20 hours on boat, must sell due to health $34,900. 541-389-1574.

5 4 1 -3 8 5 -5 8 0 9 Yamaha Blaster 2002, w/ paddle tires on rims, $1100; 1992 Suzuki 125 dirt bike, $800 Quad trailer, holds 2 quads & dirt bike, $600; OBO on pkg. deal, 541-420-0532.

Expedition 38’ 2005 Ideal for Snowbirds Very livable, 23K miles, Diesel, 3-slides, loaded, incl. W/D, Warranty, $99,500, please call 541-815-9573.

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Fleetwood Bounder 38L 2006, 350 Cat, garaged, warranty, price reduced, now $108,000. 541-389-7596 People Look for Information About Products and Services Every Day through

21.5' 1999 Sky Supreme wakeboard boat, ballast, tower, 350 V8, $17,990; 350-6050 21.9’ Malibu I-Ride 2005, perfect pass, loaded, Must sell $29,000. 541-317-4184.

21’ Reinell 2007, open bow, pristine, 9 orig. hrs., custom trailer. $22,950. 480-6510

Ads published in the "Boats" classification include: Speed, fishing, drift, canoe, house and sail boats. For all other types of watercraft, please see Class 875. 541-385-5809

Ford Pinnacle 33’ 1981, good condition, runs great, $5200, call 541-390-1833.

The Bulletin To Subscribe call 541-385-5800 or go to www.bendbulletin.com Holiday Rambler Neptune 2003, 2 slides, 300hp. Diesel, 14K, loaded, garaged, no smoking, $77,000. 633-7633 Advertise your car!

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Yamaha YFZ 450 2005 exc. shape, new rebuilt eng., stock wheels & brand new sand wheels & tires, lots of extras $4500 or trade for 4x4 truck 503-437-5763.

Harley Davidson Screamin’ Eagle Electric-Glide 2005, 2-tone, candy teal, have pink slip, have title, $25,000 or Best offer takes. 541-480-8080.

Montana 3295RK 2005, 32’ 3 slides,

Kawasaki KX100 2006, <40 hrs., racing model, 19” wheels $1600. 541-548-8533

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Polaris 90 Sportsman 2004, 4-wheeler with Mossy Oak finish. Great condition. Perfect for beginning riders. $1,650. Call 541-923-0924 before 9:00 p.m.

Malibu Skier 1988, w/center pylon, low hours, always garaged, new upholstery, great fun. $9500.

OBO. 541-389-2012.

Ads published in "Watercraft" include: Kayaks, rafts and motorized personal watercrafts. For "boats" please see Class 870.

541-385-5809

Boats & Accessories 11 Ft. Pontoon Boat, 19 inch tubes, steel powder coated frame, anchor system, fiberglass oars, solid stand up floor. Use like a drift boat, overnight trips or whitewater fun. Like new $1450. 541-389-8211.

17’ MARLIN 1993, 30 hours on motor. Only $3700! Call 541390-1609 or 541-390-1527.

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Weekend Warrior Toy Hauler 26 ft. 2007, Generator, fuel station, sleeps 8, black & gray interior, used 3X, excellent cond. $29,900. 541-389-9188.

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Yellowstone 36’ 2003, 330 Cat Diesel, 12K, 2 slides, exc. cond., non smoker, no pets, $95,000, 541-848-9225.

Find exactly what you are looking for in the CLASSIFIEDS

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Travel Trailers JAYCO 31 ft. 1998 slideout, upgraded model, exc. cond. $10,500. 1-541-454-0437.

2000 BOUNDER 36', PRICE REDUCED, 1-slide, self-contained, low mi., exc. cond., orig. owner, garaged, +extras, must see! 541-593-5112

PRISTINE COND. Everest 2006 32' 3/slides many add-on extras. Reduced to $37,900. 541-689-1351.

Just bought a new boat?

Sell your old one in the classifieds! Ask about our Super Seller rates!

541-385-5809

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Canopies and Campers

Fifth Wheels Alfa See Ya Fifth Wheel 2005!

SYF30RL 2 Slides, $34,999.

Will Consider selling tow vehicle as well 05' F-350 Call Brad (541)848-9350

Cedar Creek RDQF 2006, Loaded, 4 slides, 37.5’, king bed, W/D, gen., fireplace, granite countertops, skylight shower, central vac, much more, like new, take over payments or payoff of $43,500, 541-330-9149.

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Mountaineer by Montana 2006, 36 ft. 5th wheel 3 slide outs, used only 4 months, like new, fully equipped, located in LaPine $28,900. 541-430-5444

Freeway 11’ Overhead Camper, self contained, A/C, reconditioned, $1900 OBO. 541-383-0449

Alpha “See Ya” 30’ 1996, 2 slides, A/C, heat pump, exc. cond. for Snowbirds, solid oak cabs day & night shades, Corian, tile, hardwood. $17,995. 541-923-3417.

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Watercraft

Honda CR1 1986, fresh motor, good cond., $1000.

541-948-1299

Weekend Warrior 2008, 18’ toy hauler, 3000 watt gen., A/C, used 3 times, $18,500.

541-771-8920

MONTANA 34’ 2006 Like new, 2-slides, fireplace, electric awning w/ wind & rain sensor, kingsize bed, sage/tan/plum interior, $29,999 FIRM. 541-389-9188

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Washer/Dryer, 2 A/C’S and more. Interested parties only $24,095 OBO. 541279-8528 or 541-279-8740 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail 1988, 1452 original mi., garaged over last 10 yrs., $9500. 541-891-3022

Jayco Jayflight 2006, 29’ BHS w/ custom value pkg., 20’ awning, gas grill, tow pkg., $14,500. 541-593-2227

Fleetwood 355RLQS 2007, 37’, 4 slides, exc. cond., 50 amp. service, central vac, fireplace, king bed, leather furniture, 6 speaker stereo, micro., awning, small office space, set up for gooseneck or kingpin hitch, for pics see ad#3810948 in rvtrader.com $38,500, 541-388-7184, or 541-350-0462.

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Pickups

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Aircraft, Parts and Service

and lots of extra parts.

Make Offer, 541-536-8036

Aircraft Hangar in Bend, 80 X 60 with Pilot Quarters w/ 1/2 bath above showerlaundry room, 60 ft. Wilson Door. $385,000. 50X60 for rent or sale also. 420-8600

Chevy Blazer 1971, auto, w/strong 350 motor, 8” lift, removable top, like new tread on 38” Groundhawgs, straight body, nice paint, $5000, 541-385-8856.

Chevy Corvette 1979, 30K mi., glass t-top, runs & looks great, $12,500, 280-5677.

Columbia 400 & Hangar, Sunriver, total cost $750,000, selling 50% interest for $275,000. 541-647-3718

$3,495 541-815-8069

Chevy Silverado 2008, X Cab, 7K mi., 4x4, top of the line camper shell, Max tow pkg., 28,900. 541-771-8920

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The Bulletin Classifieds 20.5’ Seaswirl Spyder 1989 H.O. 302, 285 hrs., exc. cond., stored indoors for life $11,900 OBO. 541-379-3530

FAT CAT 1987, excellent shape, good bear hunt rig, $1000.

541-749-0232.

HARLEY DAVIDSON 1200 Custom 2007, black, fully loaded, forward control, excellent condition. Only $7900!!!

541-419-4040

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COLORADO 5TH WHEEL 2003 , 36 ft. 3 Slideouts $27,000.

541-788-0338

Everest 32’ 2004, 3 slides, island kitchen, air, surround sound, micro., full oven, more, in exc. cond., 2 trips on it, 1 owner, like new, REDUCED NOW $26,000. 541-228-5944

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4-dr., complete, $15,000 OBO, trades, please call 541-420-5453.

Helicopter 1968 Rotorway Scorpion 1, all orig. needs radiator/muffler $5000 trade for motorcycle 541 389-8971

Older T/Hangar, Bend Airport, holds Bonanza/C-182 type aircraft, 1 piece door, 40 year lease, reduced $54,900. Bill, 541-480-7930.

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Trucks and Heavy Equipment Bulldozer Mitsubishi BD-2 Under 1000 hours, 6 way blade, canopy, brush rake, $12,500.

Call Mike at 541-480-1722 Escavator- Komatsu PC 50uu 11,600 Lbs, 3 buckets, articulating boom, 2,675 hours.

Runs perfect. Rubber tracks. $14,500.

Call Mike at 541-480-1722

4X4, with matching canopy!!

Vin #253076

Only $5,888 Corvette 1956, rebuilt 2006, 3 spd., 2, 4 barrel, 225 hp.

Matching numbers $52,500, 541-280-1227.

Ford Mustang Coupe 1966, original owner, V8, automatic, great shape, $9000 OBO. 530-515-8199

Ford Tudor 2 Door Sedan, All Steel, 327 Chevy, T-350 Trans., A/C, Tilt, Cruise, Disc.

Wabco 666 Grader - New tires, Brakes. Many Time Show clean, runs good -$8,500.

Winner and Great Driver.

Austin Western Super 500 Displayed at Professional Grader - All wheel drive, low Auto Body, South, 61210 hours on engine - $10,500.

S. Hwy. 97, Bend. $34,900.

1986 Autocar cement truck 541-306-5161, 209-993-6518 Cat engine, 10 yd mixer $10,000. Call 541-771-4980 FIND IT! Water truck, Kenworth 1963, BUY IT! 4000 gal., CAT eng., runs SELL IT! great, $4000. 541-977-8988

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Host 10.5DS Camper 2005, Tahoe, always stored indoors, loaded, clean, Reduced to $20,900, 541-330-0206.

SACRIFICE Northstar TS1000 2009, pop up, like brand new, perfect cond., fiberglass w/graphics, pre-wired, dbl. sink, etc. incl. many other options, paid $18,785, sell for $14,500. 541-593-1546

Karman Ghia 1970 convertible, white top, Blue body, 90% restored. $10,000 541-389-2636, 306-9907.

UTILITY TRAILER: S10 pickup bed trailer, canopy and spare tire. $199. 541-385-0126.

Mercedes 380SL 1983, Convertible, blue color, new tires, cloth top & fuel pump, $6500 OBO, 541-536-3962

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LEGAL NOTICE Estate of Tony A. Partipilo NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS Case Number: 10PB0002MA Notice: The Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for the County of Deschutes, has appointed Terry Partipilo as Administrator of the Estate of Tony A. Partipilo, deceased.

All persons having claims against said estate are required to present the same, with proper vouchers to the Administrator, c/o David E. Petersen, Merrill O'Sullivan, LLP, 805 SW Industrial Way, Suite 5, Bend, Oregon 97702, within four months from the date of first publication of this notice as stated below, or they may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by this proceeding may obtain additional information from the records of the court, the Administrator, or the Attorney for the Administrator.

Dated and first published: February 7, 2010.

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Terry Partipilo 60623 River Bend Drive Bend, Oregon 97702 Attorney for Administrator: David E. Petersen, OSB #82104 Merrill O'Sullivan, LLP 805 SW Industrial Way, Suite 5 Bend, Oregon 97702 Office: (541) 389-1770 Facsimile: (541) 389-1777 Email: redside@merrill-osullivan.com LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS LAWRENCE E. RUCKER has been appointed personal representative of the Estate of BEVERLY JEAN RUCKER, Deceased, by the Circuit Court, State of Oregon, Deschutes County, Probate No. 10 PB 0006 SF. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them with proper vouchers attached, to the personal representative c/o Richard E. Forcum, Attorney at Law, 141 NW Greenwood Ave. Ste. 101, Bend, OR 97701, within four months from the date of first publication of this no-

tice as stated below, or the claims may be barred. All persons whose rights may be affected by this proceeding may obtain additional information from the court records, the personal representative, or the attorney for the personal representative.

DATED and first published: February 7, 2010.

RICHARD E. FORCUM, OSB #640340 Attorney for Personal Representative 141 NW Greenwood Ave. Ste. 101 Bend, OR 97701 Tel: 541-389-6964 Fax: 541-389-6969 E-mail: info@forcumlaw.com

LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC AUCTION Public auction to be held Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 9:00 A.M., at Jamison Street Self Storage, 63177 Jamison Street, Bend, OR 97701. (Unit B-235, Richard Kirchner) (Unit B-126, Michael Raymond Bailey).

LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE CITY OF BEND PLANNING COMMISSION PROJECT NUMBER: 09-241 APPLICANT: Bend Metro Park & Recreation District NATURE OF THE APPLICATION: A minor alteration to the Old Mill District Master Plan to allow the subject property to be developed with either park/open space or mixed use, parking, plaza, medium/ high residential as originally approved under the Westside Master Plan (PZ #02-07). In addition the applicant is requesting a Waterway Overlay review for the construction of an off leash dog park within the Waterway Overlay Zone. APPLICABLE CRITERIA: Chapter 10; City of Bend Development Code, Ordinance

NS-2016: Chapter 2.3 Mixed - Use Districts (ME, MR and PO); Section 2.7.600 Waterway Overlay Zone (WOZ) Chapter 4.1, Land Use Review and Procedures available in City Hall or at the Community Development Department portion of the City's website. PROPERTY LOCATION: along the west bank of the Deschutes River in the vicinity of Riverbend Park; Deschutes County Assessors Map 18-12-05C, Tax Lots 1200 & 1300; DATE, TIME, PLACE AND LOCATION OF THE HEARING: Monday, February 22, 2010, 5:30 PM at 710 NW Wall Street, Bend, OR, in City Hall Council Chambers. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The application, all documents and evidence submitted by or on behalf of the applicant and the application criteria are available for inspection at City Hall at no cost and will be provided at a reasonable cost. Seven days prior to the hearing a copy of the staff report will be similarly available. CONTACT PERSON: Craig Chenoweth at (541)388-5563, cchenoweth@ci.bend.or.us. Send

written testimony to the Hearings Officer c/o CDD, 710 NW Wall St. 97702, or attend the meeting and state your views. The hearing will be conducted in accordance with BDC Section 4.1.800.

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LEGAL NOTICE The Board of Directors of the La Pine Rural Fire Protection District will hold a regular meeting Thursday, February 11, at 9:00 a.m. at the Fire Station located at 51550 Huntington Road, La Pine.

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LEGAL NOTICE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing instrument shall constitute notice, pursuant to ORS 86.740, that the Grantor of the Trust Deed described below has defaulted on its obligations to beneficiary, and that the Beneficiary and Successor Trustee under the Trust Deed have elected to sell the property secured by the Trust Deed: TRUST DEED AND PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: This instrument makes reference to that certain deed of trust, security agreement, fixture filing, and assignment of rents dated June 20, 2006, and recorded on June 22, 2006, as instrument number 2006-43037, in the Official Records of Deschutes County, State of Oregon, wherein ANGUS ACRES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, an Oregon limited partnership, is the Grantor and WESTERN TITLE is the Trustee, and HOMESTREET BANK, a Washington state chartered savings bank, is the Beneficiary (the "Trust Deed"). The aforementioned Trust Deed covers property (the "Property") described as: Lots 51 and 54, Angus ACRES, Phase 2, Deschutes County, Oregon. Also commonly described as: 9471 18th Ct., Terrebonne, OR 97760; 413 Foss Dr., Terrebonne, OR 97760. The tax parcel number(s) are: 252007; 252020. The undersigned hereby certifies that he has no knowledge of any assignments of the Trust Deed by the Trustee or by the Beneficiary or any appointments of a Successor Trustee other than the appointment of JEFFREY C. GARDNER, as Successor Trustee as recorded in the property records of the county in which the Property described above is situated.

Further, the undersigned certifies that no action has been instituted to recover the debt, or any part thereof, now remaining secured by the Trust Deed. Or, if such action has been instituted, it has been dismissed except as permitted by ORS 86.735(4). The name and address of Successor Trustee are as follows: Jeffrey C. Gardner, Successor Trustee, Ball Janik LLP, 101 SW Main Street, Suite 1100, Portland, Oregon 97204-3219. The Trust Deed is not a "Residential Trust Deed", as defined in ORS 86.705(3), thus the requirements of Chapter 19, Section 20, Oregon Laws 2008, and Chapter 864 [S.B. 628], Oregon Laws 2009, do not apply. DEFAULT BY GRANTOR AND ELECTION TO SELL: There are continuing and uncured defaults by the Grantor that, based on the provisions of the Trust Deed, authorize the foreclosure of the Trust Deed and the sale of the Property described above, which uncured and continuing defaults include but are not necessarily limited to the following: 1. The Loan secured by the Deed of Trust matured on March 22, 2009, at which time the entire principal balance owed together with all accrued interest plus Beneficiary's unpaid fees, costs, and expenses was immediately due and payable by Grantor to Lender. Grantor has failed to pay to Lender a total of not less than $716,107.81 (the "Indebtedness") which total amount is comprised of an unpaid principal balance of $662,259.98 together with accrued and unpaid interest through and including November 18, 2009 of $31,378.69 plus Beneficiary's unpaid fees, costs, and collection expenses of not less than $22,469.14. Interest on account of the unpaid principal portion of the Indebtedness continues to accrue from and after November 18, 2009, at a rate that is currently 18% percent per annum or $326.59 per diem. On account of Borrower's continuing and uncured defaults, and pursuant to the express terms of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust, effective from and after October 27, 2009, the fully floating interest rate applicable to Loan 13818 was increased to the default interest rate applicable to the Loan. ALL AMOUNTS are now due and payable along with all costs and fees associated with this foreclosure. 2. As to the defaults which do not involve payment of money to the Beneficiary of your Deed of Trust, you must cure each such default. Listed below are the defaults which do not involve payment of money to the Beneficiary of your Deed of Trust. Opposite each such listed default is a brief description of the action necessary to cure the default and a description of the documentation necessary to show that the default has been cured. The list does not exhaust all possible other defaults; any and all defaults identified by Beneficiary or the Successor Trustee that are not listed below must also be cured. OTHER DEFAULT / Description of Action Required to Cure and Documentation Necessary to Show Cure: Non-Payment of Taxes and/or Assessments. / Deliver to Successor Trustee written proof that all taxes and assessments against the Real Property are paid current. TOTAL UNCURED MONETARY (PAYMENT) DEFAULT: By reason of said uncured and continuing defaults, the Beneficiary has accelerated and declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by the Trust Deed and the Property immediately due and payable. The sums due and payable being the following: Unpaid principal amount owing pursuant to the Obligations, as of November 18, 2009: $662,259.98; Unpaid interest owing pursuant to the Obligations as of November 18, 2009: $31,378.69; Accrued and unpaid fees, costs and collection expenses, including attorneys fees and costs, to November 18, 2009: $22,469.14; TOTAL DUE: $716,107.81.

Accordingly, the sum owing on the obligation secured by the Trust Deed is $716,107.81, as of November 18, 2009, together with interest accruing on the principal portion of that amount, plus additional costs and expenses incurred by Beneficiary and/or the Successor Trustee (including their respective attorney's fees, costs, and expenses). Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary, by reason of the uncured and continuing defaults described above, has elected and does hereby elect to foreclose said Trust Deed by advertisement and sale pursuant to ORS 86.735 et seq., and to cause to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the Grantor's interest in the subject Property, which the Grantor had, or had the power to convey, at the time the Grantor executed the Trust Deed in favor of the Beneficiary, along with any interest the Grantor or the Grantor's successors in interest acquired after the execution of the Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations secured by the Trust Deed as well as the expenses of the sale, including compensation of the Trustee as provided by law, and the reasonable fees of Trustee's attorneys. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the sale will be held at the hour of 11:00 a.m., in accordance with the standard of time established by ORS 187.110, on Thursday, April 1, 2010, on the front steps of the main entrance to the Deschutes County Courthouse, 1164 NW Bond Street, Bend, Oregon 97701.

RIGHT OF REINSTATEMENT: Notice is further given that any person named in ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time prior to five (5) days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed satisfied by (A) payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due, other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred, together with the costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the terms of the obligation, as well as Successor Trustee and attorney fees as prescribed by ORS 86.753); and (B) by curing all such other continuing and uncured defaults as noted in this Notice. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30-day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out. To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you must give the trustee a copy of the rental agreement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is March 2, 2010. The name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period.

Consult a lawyer for more information about your rights under federal law. You have the right to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice. If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. If you need help finding a lawyer, you may call the Oregon State Bar's Lawyer Referral Service at 503-684-3763 or toll-free in Oregon at 800-452-7636 or you may visit its website at www.osbar.org. Legal assistance may be available if you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines. For more information and a directory of legal aid programs, go to http://www.oregonlawhelp.org. DATED November 18, 2009. By: Jeffrey C. Gardner, OSB 98054, Successor Trustee, Ball Janik LLP, 101 SW Main Street, Suite 1100, Portland, Oregon 97204-3219, Telephone: (503) 228-2525, Facsimile: (503) 295-1058, Email: jgardner@balljanik.com.

LEGAL NOTICE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing instrument shall constitute notice, pursuant to ORS 86.740, that the Grantor of the Trust Deed described below has defaulted on its obligations to beneficiary, and that the Beneficiary and Successor Trustee under the Trust Deed have elected to sell the property secured by the Trust Deed: TRUST DEED AND PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: This instrument makes reference to that certain deed of trust, security agreement, fixture filing, and assignment of rents dated August 3, 2007, and recorded on August 7, 2007, as instrument number 2007-43437, in the Official Records of Deschutes County, State of Oregon, wherein ANGUS ACRES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, an Oregon limited partnership, is the Grantor and WESTERN TITLE is the Trustee, and HOMESTREET BANK, a Washington state chartered savings bank, is the Beneficiary (the "Trust Deed"). The aforementioned Trust Deed covers property (the "Property") described as: Lots 78, 80, 81, 82 Angus ACRES, PHASE 3, Deschutes County, Oregon. Also commonly described as: 9432, 9372, 9342 and 9322 13th St., Terrebonne, OR 97760. The tax parcel number(s) are: 254997, 254995, 254994, 254993. The undersigned hereby certifies that he has no knowledge of any assignments of the Trust Deed by the Trustee or by the Beneficiary or any appointments of a Successor Trustee other than the appointment of JEFFREY C. GARDNER, as Successor Trustee as recorded in the property records of the county in which the Property described above is situated. Further, the undersigned certifies that no action has been instituted to recover the debt, or any part thereof, now remaining secured by the Trust Deed. Or, if such action has been instituted, it has been dismissed except as permitted by ORS 86.735(4). The name and address of Successor Trustee are as follows: Jeffrey C. Gardner, Successor Trustee, Ball Janik LLP, 101 SW Main Street, Suite 1100, Portland, Oregon 97204-3219. The Trust Deed is not a "Residential Trust Deed", as defined in ORS 86.705(3), thus the requirements of Chapter 19, Section 20, Oregon Laws 2008, and Chapter 864 [S.B. 628], Oregon Laws 2009, do not apply. DEFAULT

BY GRANTOR AND ELECTION TO SELL: There are continuing and uncured defaults by the Grantor that, based on the provisions of the Trust Deed, authorize the foreclosure of the Trust Deed and the sale of the Property described above, which uncured and continuing defaults include but are not necessarily limited to the following: 1. The Loan secured by the Deed of Trust matured on February 7, 2009, at which time the entire principal balance owed together with all accrued interest plus Beneficiary's unpaid fees, costs, and expenses was immediately due and payable by Grantor to Lender. Grantor has failed to pay to Lender a total of not less than $1,206,624.07 (the "Indebtedness") which total amount is comprised of an unpaid principal balance of $1,132,800.00 together with accrued and unpaid interest through and including November 18, 2009 of $48,198.30 plus Beneficiary's unpaid fees, costs, and collection expenses of not less than $25,625.77. Interest on account of the unpaid principal portion of the Indebtedness continues to accrue from and after November 18, 2009, at a rate that is currently 18% percent per annum or $558.64 per diem. On account of Borrower's continuing and uncured defaults, and pursuant to the express terms of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust, effective from and after October 27, 2009, the fully floating interest rate applicable to Loan 14201 was increased to the default interest rate applicable to the Loan. ALL AMOUNTS are now due and payable along with all costs and fees associated with this foreclosure. 2. As to the defaults which do not involve payment of money to the Beneficiary of your Deed of Trust, you must cure each such default. Listed below are the defaults which do not involve payment of money to the Beneficiary of your Deed of Trust.

Opposite each such listed default is a brief description of the action necessary to cure the default and a description of the documentation necessary to show that the default has been cured. The list does not exhaust all possible other defaults; any and all defaults identified by Beneficiary or the Successor Trustee that are not listed below must also be cured. OTHER DEFAULT / Description of Action Required to Cure and Documentation Necessary to Show Cure: Non-Payment of Taxes and/or Assessments. / Deliver to Successor Trustee written proof that all taxes and assessments against the Real Property are paid current. TOTAL UNCURED MONETARY (PAYMENT) DEFAULT: By reason of said uncured and continuing defaults, the Beneficiary has accelerated and declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by the Trust Deed and the Property immediately due and payable. The sums due and payable being the following: Unpaid principal amount owing pursuant to the Obligations, as of November 18, 2009: $1,132,800.00; Unpaid interest owing pursuant to the Obligations as of November 18, 2009: $48,198.30; Accrued and unpaid fees, costs and collection expenses, including attorneys fees and costs, to November 18, 2009: $25,625.77; TOTAL DUE: $1,206,624.07. Accordingly, the sum owing on the obligation secured by the Trust Deed is $1,206,624.07, as of November 18, 2009, together with interest accruing on the principal portion of that amount, plus additional costs and expenses incurred by Beneficiary and/or the Successor Trustee (including their respective attorney's fees, costs, and expenses). Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary, by reason of the uncured and continuing defaults described above, has elected and does hereby elect to foreclose said Trust Deed by advertisement and sale pursuant to ORS 86.735 et seq., and to cause to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the Grantor's interest in the subject Property, which the Grantor had, or had the power to convey, at the time the Grantor executed the Trust Deed in favor of the Beneficiary, along with any interest the Grantor or the Grantor's successors in interest acquired after the execution of the Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations secured by the Trust Deed as well as the expenses of the sale, including compensation of the Trustee as provided by law, and the reasonable fees of Trustee's attorneys. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the sale will be held at the hour of 11:00 a.m., in accordance with the standard of time established by ORS 187.110, on Thursday, April 1, 2010, on the front steps of the main entrance to the Deschutes County Courthouse, 1164 NW Bond Street, Bend, Oregon 97701. RIGHT OF REINSTATEMENT: Notice is further given that any person named in ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time prior to five (5) days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed satisfied by (A) payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due, other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred, together with the costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the terms of the obligation, as well as Successor Trustee and attorney fees as prescribed by ORS 86.753); and (B) by curing all such other continuing and uncured defaults as noted in this Notice. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30-day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out. To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you must give the trustee a copy of the rental agreement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is March 2, 2010. The name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about your rights under federal law. You have the right to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice.

If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. If you need help finding a lawyer, you may call the Oregon State Bar's Lawyer Referral Service at 503-684-3763 or toll-free in Oregon at 800-452-7636 or you may visit its website at www.osbar.org. Legal assistance may be available if you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines. For more information and a directory of legal aid programs, go to http://www.oregonlawhelp.org. DATED November 18, 2009. By: Jeffrey C. Gardner, OSB 98054, Successor Trustee, Ball Janik LLP, 101 SW Main Street, Suite 1100, Portland, Oregon 97204-3219, Telephone: (503) 228-2525, Facsimile: (503) 295-1058, Email: jgardner@balljanik.com.

meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. Complete agendas or request for interpreter for the hearing impaired or for the accommodations for persons with disabilities should be made at least 48 hours before the meeting through the district administrative office at 51590 Huntington Road.

LEGAL NOTICE The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Deschutes County Rural Fire Protection District #2 will be held on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. at the Training Building behind the North Fire Station, 63377 Jamison St., Bend, OR. Items on the agenda include: presentation by Sonia Andrews City of Bend Finance Director, an update on Project Wildfire, the fire department report, and the appointment of John Cullen to the budget committee.

The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. A request for an interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations for persons with disabilities should be made at least 48 hours before the meeting to: Tom Fay 541-318-0459.

TTY 800-735-2900.

PUBLIC NOTICE Pro Caliber Motor Sports of Oregon, 3500 N. HWY 97, BEND. 541-647-5151, will hold a public auction on March 5th, 2010 at 11 am for the following abandoned vehicles, 1997 Kawasaki Bayou 220KLF VIN# JKBLFBA12VB717354, Registered owner Cady Raymond, or Joey Cooper, and 2000 Yamaha YZ250 VIN# JYACG08C1YA010240, Registered owner Matt Kiesel.

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PUBLIC NOTICE The Bend-La Pine School District is holding an on-site sealed bid for the the sale of wood working equipment and classroom furniture.

Doors will open at 9:00 am on Monday, February 15, 2010, at the old Bend High School wood shop off Alden Street behind Bend High School. Sealed bids will be received until 11:30 am on February 15. Awards will be made to the highest bidders.

Classroom furniture will be sold during the bidding process for a stated price on a first come/first served basis.

All furniture and equipment must be removed on the day of sale by 2:00 pm. All items must be paid for with cash or cashiers check at the time of award. Items include but are not limited to the following: lathes, work benches with lockers, drafting tables, rolling carts, chair/desk combos, tables and other miscellaneous items. For additional information contact Corrina Jaeger, District Buyer, at 541.322.5495.

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LEGAL NOTICE TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing instrument shall constitute notice, pursuant to ORS 86.740, that the Grantor of the Trust Deed described below has defaulted on its obligations to beneficiary, and that the Beneficiary and Successor Trustee under the Trust Deed have elected to sell the property secured by the Trust Deed: TRUST DEED AND PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: This instrument makes reference to that certain deed of trust dated October 18, 2007, and recorded on October 19, 2007, as instrument number 2007-55853, in the Official Records of Deschutes County, State of Oregon, wherein DOUG STRAIN is the Grantor and AMERITITLE - DESCHUTES is the Trustee, and HOME FEDERAL BANK, as successor in interest to COMMUNITY FIRST BANK, an Oregon state-chartered commercial bank, is the Beneficiary (the "Trust Deed"). The aforementioned Trust Deed covers property (the "Property") described as: Lot Nine (9), RIVER PARK ESTATES, recorded October 19, 2004, in Cabinet G, Page 480, Deschutes County, Oregon. Also commonly described as: [no street address]. The tax parcel number(s) are: 245788. The undersigned hereby certifies that he has no knowledge of any assignments of the Trust Deed by the Trustee or by the Beneficiary or any appointments of a Successor Trustee other than the appointment of JEFFREY C. GARDNER, as Successor Trustee as recorded in the property records of the county in which the Property described above is situated. Further, the undersigned certifies that no action has been instituted to recover the debt, or any part thereof, now remaining secured by the Trust Deed. Or, if such action has been instituted, it has been dismissed except as permitted

by ORS 86.735(4). The name and address of Successor Trustee are as follows: Jeffrey C. Gardner, Successor Trustee, Ball Janik LLP, 101 SW Main Street, Suite 1100, Portland, Oregon 97204-3219.

The Trust Deed is not a "Residential Trust Deed", as defined in ORS 86.705(3), thus the requirements of Chapter 19, Section 20, Oregon Laws 2008, and Chapter 864 [S.B. 628], Oregon Laws 2009, do not apply. DEFAULT BY GRANTOR AND ELECTION TO SELL: There are continuing and uncured defaults by the Grantor that, based on the provisions of the Trust Deed, authorize the foreclosure of the Trust Deed and the sale of the Property described above, which uncured and continuing defaults include but are not necessarily limited to the following: 1. Grantor's failure to pay to Beneficiary, when and in the full amounts due, monthly payments as set forth on the Note secured by said Deed of Trust. Monthly payments under the Note secured by Deed of Trust, are due for the months of August through November, 2009 and each and every month thereafter until paid. Interest due as of (i.e., through and including) November 9, 2009 totals $6,254.17 and continues to accrue at the rate of 18% per annum or $155.38 per diem. On account of Borrower's continuing and uncured defaults, and pursuant to the express terms of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust, effective from and after October 22, 2009, the fully floating interest rate applicable to Loan 45004314 was increased to the default interest rate applicable to the Loan. ALL AMOUNTS are now due and payable along with all costs and fees associated with this foreclosure.

2. As to the defaults which do not involve payment of money to the Beneficiary of your Deed of Trust, you must cure each such default. Listed below are the defaults which do not involve payment of money to the Beneficiary of your Deed of Trust. Opposite each such listed default is a brief description of the action necessary to cure the default and a description of the documentation necessary to show that the default has been cured. The list does not exhaust all possible other defaults; any and all defaults identified by Beneficiary or the Successor Trustee that are not listed below must also be cured. OTHER DEFAULT / Description of Action Required to Cure and Documentation Necessary to Show Cure: Non-Payment of Taxes and/or Assessments. / Deliver to Successor Trustee written proof that all taxes and assessments against the Real Property are paid current. TOTAL UNCURED MONETARY (PAYMENT) DEFAULT: By reason of said uncured and continuing defaults, the Beneficiary has accelerated and declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by the Trust Deed and the Property immediately due and payable. The sums due and payable being the following: Unpaid principal amount owing pursuant to the Obligations, as of November 9, 2009: $315,082.41; Unpaid interest owing pursuant to the Obligations as of November 9, 2009: $6,254.17; Accrued and unpaid fees, costs and collection expenses to November 9, 2009: $336.00; TOTAL DUE: $321,672.58. Accordingly, the sum owing on the obligation secured by the Trust Deed is $321,672.58, as of November 9, 2009, together with interest accruing on the principal portion of that amount, plus additional costs and expenses incurred by Beneficiary and/or the Successor Trustee (including their respective attorney's fees, costs, and expenses).

Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary, by reason of the uncured and continuing defaults described above, has elected and does hereby elect to foreclose said Trust Deed by advertisement and sale pursuant to ORS 86.735 et seq., and to cause to be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the Grantor's interest in the subject Property, which the Grantor had, or had the power to convey, at the time the Grantor executed the Trust Deed in favor of the Beneficiary, along with any interest the Grantor or the Grantor's successors in interest acquired after the execution of the Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations secured by the Trust Deed as well as the expenses of the sale, including compensation of the Trustee as provided by law, and the reasonable fees of Trustee's attorneys. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the sale will be held at the hour of 11:00 a.m., in accordance with the standard of time established by ORS 187.110, on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, on the front steps of the main entrance to the Deschutes County Courthouse, 1164 NW Bond Street, Bend, Oregon 97701. RIGHT OF REINSTATEMENT: Notice is further given that any person named in ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time prior to five (5) days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed satisfied by (A) payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due, other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred, together with the costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the terms of the obligation, as well as Successor Trustee and attorney fees as prescribed by ORS 86.753); and (B) by curing all such other continuing and uncured defaults as noted in this Notice. NOTICE TO TENANTS: If you are a tenant of this property, foreclosure could affect your rental agreement. A purchaser who buys this property at a foreclosure sale has the right to require you to move out after giving you notice of the requirement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease, the purchaser may require you to move out after giving you a 30-day notice on or after the date of the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you may be entitled to receive after the date of the sale a 60-day notice of the purchaser's requirement that you move out.

To be entitled to either a 30-day or 60-day notice, you must give the trustee of the property written evidence of your rental agreement at least 30 days before the date first set for the sale. If you have a fixed-term lease, you must give the trustee a copy of the rental agreement. If you do not have a fixed-term lease and cannot provide a copy of the rental agreement, you may give the trustee other written evidence of the existence of the rental agreement. The date that is 30 days before the date of the sale is March 8, 2010. The name of the trustee and the trustee's mailing address are listed on this notice. Federal law may grant you additional rights, including a right to a longer notice period. Consult a lawyer for more information about your rights under federal law.

You have the right to apply your security deposit and any rent you prepaid toward your current obligation under your rental agreement. If you want to do so, you must notify your landlord in writing and in advance that you intend to do so. If you believe you need legal assistance with this matter, you may contact the Oregon State Bar and ask for the lawyer referral service. Contact information for the Oregon State Bar is included with this notice. If you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines, you may be eligible for free legal assistance. Contact information for where you can obtain free legal assistance is included with this notice. If you need help finding a lawyer, you may call the Oregon State Bar's Lawyer Referral Service at 503-684-3763 or toll-free in Oregon at 800-452-7636 or you may visit its website at www.osbar.org. Legal assistance may be available if you have a low income and meet federal poverty guidelines. For more information and a directory of legal aid programs, go to http://www.oregonlawhelp.org. DATED November 18, 2009. By: Jeffrey C. Gardner, OSB 98054, Successor Trustee, Ball Janik LLP, 101 SW Main Street, Suite 1100, Portland, Oregon 97204-3219, Telephone: (503) 228-2525, Facsimile: (503) 295-1058, Email: jgardner@balljanik.com.

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THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010

John Costa

The Bulletin is not anti-schools or anti-teachers

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he Bulletin had a very strong but also misunderstood opinion about tax Measures 66 and 67, which were approved by Oregon voters two weeks ago.

No doubt, we opposed the two, which raise taxes on corporations and higher income workers.

We think they will prove destructive to the state in the long run, a view seconded in The Wall Street Journal, which reported this week that the mayor of Chicago intended to actively recruit Oregon companies to his city.

In any case, our editorials focused on the burgeoning size of the state government and its employee force and the dwindling size of private employment.

In the long run, we argued, this cannot be sustained.

Taxpayers, being both sensitive to what the government demands and mobile, will leave the state.

Oregon will simply have fewer and fewer people to tax, a phenomenon that is occurring in other high tax, big government states.

You can get angry with this little unfortunate and uncomfortable reality, but it’s hard to deny its existence.

What drew the ire of many of these public workers was The Bulletin’s focus on the fact that their pay and benefits, particularly the guarantees of PERS, the state retirement system, was a significant part of the long-term problem.

For that, The Bulletin was accused of being anti-schools and teachers and anti-education.

It’s understandable, as I said to a recent teachers’ union visitor, why his colleagues would take our views personally. It’s their pay and benefits that we are talking about.

But that’s not all that we were talking about.

I could recite a long record of support

by The Bulletin for public education.

I can’t remember a school bond we have opposed, and, of course, we supported the recent construction bond for Central Oregon Community College.

Most all of the children of the members of the editorial board have gone to or are going to public schools.

A couple of us have grandchildren who are not too far removed.

Personally, we have been volunteers, tutors and advisers. Our spouses and significant others work in the public school system.

During the last recession, when the school newspapers in the Bend-La Pine district were on the bubble, The Bulletin agreed to pick up the production costs to keep them alive.

And at another time, The Bulletin’s editorial page urged the passage of an optional tax levy to support local schools and urged Gov. Kulongoski to crusade for a sales tax to stabilize funding, which, of course, he didn’t do.

But this isn’t any other time.

We learned last week from the Oregon Employment Department that from December 2006 until December 2009, the private work force in Deschutes County shrank 10 percent while public employment grew 8 percent.

This is a time when perhaps 20 percent of Central Oregon’s workers are officially unemployed or have given up trying to find a job.

Of those employed, 10 to 25 percent wage reductions are the order of the day, either in direct salary cuts or furloughs.

Health care premiums are double or triple what teachers and other public workers pay, and fixed benefit pensions are unheard of.

I am willing to bet that if Redmond teachers had accepted a similar pay reduction, instead of laying off a lot of workers, that city would have a five-day school week instead of the current four. A lot of newer teachers would still be employed, and a lot of parents wouldn’t have to scrape together day care money from their shrinking incomes.

Our views are not anti-teacher or antieducation, a system we all have a vested interest in.

They are based on a simple economic reality, one accepted by political leaders of all stripes.

Oregon cannot sustain the pay and benefits of its public workers, which includes teachers — not just through this very difficult time, but even when the economy returns.

Sooner or later the private work force, particularly in a county that substantially rejected the tax measures, will grow envious and retaliatory.

And that force has a very convenient way to register its objections.

John Costa is editor-in-chief of The Bulletin.

The legacy of Henrietta Lacks: How one woman’s contribution to medical science wasn’t really a gift

By Denise Grady New York Times News Service

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ifty years after Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in the “colored” ward

at Johns Hopkins Hospital, her daughter finally got a chance to see the legacy she had unknowingly left to science.

A researcher in a laboratory at Hopkins swung open a freezer door and showed the daughter, Deborah Lacks-Pullum, thousands of vials, each holding millions of cells descended from a bit of tissue that doctors had snipped from her mother’s cervix.

Lacks-Pullum gasped. “Oh God,” she said. “I can’t believe all that’s my mother.”

When the researcher handed her one of the frozen vials, Lacks-Pullum instinctively said, “She’s cold,” and blew on the tube to warm it.

“You’re famous,” she whispered to the cells.

Minutes later, peering through a microscope, she pronounced them beautiful. But when she asked the researcher which were her mother’s normal cells and which the cancer cells, his answer revealed that her precious relic was not quite what it seemed. The cells, he replied, were “all just cancer.”

The vignette comes from a gripping new book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (Crown Publishers), by journalist Rebecca Skloot. The story of Lacks and her cells, and the author’s own adventures with Lacks’ grown children (one fries her a pork chop, and another slams her against New York Times News Service

Henrietta and David Lacks seen together around 1945. Fifty years after Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in the “colored” ward at Johns Hopkins Hospital, her daughter, Deborah Lacks-Pullum, finally got a chance to see the legacy her mother had unknowingly left to science.

a wall) is by turns heartbreaking, funny and unsettling.

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BOOKS INSIDE

Short novel: Don DeLillo’s latest keeps with his central themes but has a simple style, see Page F4.

Grinding gears: It’s not an easy read, but Sam Shepard’s stories are profound and beautiful, see Page F4.

Forgotten history: A former journalist makes you rethink the history of slavery in the North with a startling narrative, see Page F5.

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BETSY MCCOOL GORDON BLACK JOHN COSTA ERIK LUKENS

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County surrenders

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ast week, Deschutes County’s three commissioners approved a new law enforcement contract and agreed to place a $44 million jail bond on the May ballot. Taxpayers

in the county, where the December unemployment rate was a crippling 14 percent, must marvel at the alternate economic reality in which their elected representatives operate.

We discussed the more interesting elements of the deputies’ contract in Wednesday’s editorial, so we won’t go into detail here. In brief, though, the union’s members will receive an effective, across-the-board pay hike of 4 percent for the year beginning in July.

They’ll also get automatic pay hikes of 2 percent for each of the next two years, though the consumer price index could push them as high as 5 percent. Among other things, the contract also increases the automatic pay bumps employees receive for each five years of service.

Like everyone else in Deschutes County, we value the work that law enforcement officers do. We also happen to think Sheriff Larry Blanton has done a fine job. Nevertheless, this contract is a bit hard to swallow, as are the arguments in its defense. Blanton points out that the union’s members have gone without automatic “cost of living” raises since July 2008 — though they’ve continued to receive other types of raises. Meanwhile, Commissioner Dennis Luke argues that the union could have received an even more generous contract if negotiations had ended up in binding arbitration.

Luke may be right. Then again, the union may have ended up with less than the commission gave up Wednesday. In any case, shouldn’t the people elected to pursue the interests of taxpayers have fought for them rather than waving a white flag in anticipated defeat? You’d never know it to read the contract, but in the three years ending in December 2009, Deschutes County

lost nearly 6,300 private-sector jobs.

That represents a 10 percent decline in private, nonfarm employment, according to the Oregon Employment Department. We’d call that trend a crisis, and we aren’t reassured by the 8 percent growth in government jobs in the county over the same period.

Perhaps the most disappointing element of the contract is its inclusion of language — discussed at greater length in Wednesday’s editorial — that could delay or prevent the release of public information regarding employee discipline. We don’t expect Blanton to abuse such language in the manner county officials did last year in order to protect a member of a different employee union. But what about the next sheriff? And how can commissioners — even if they were so inclined — justify purging anti-transparency language from other contracts now that they’ve approved this one? They can’t. By letting this contract slide, they’ve indicated that keeping the peace with unions means more to them than fighting for government openness.

Deschutes County’s commissioners have let taxpayers down. Voters should remember that in May, when they’re asked to raise their property taxes to build a new jail. The jail might prove to be necessary. But it won’t be easy to convince thousands of people who’ve been hammered by the recession to sacrifice more in order to build a facility that will be operated by an agency that has a very different idea of what constitutes sacrifice.

Give tort reform its due

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here may be no silver bullets in health care reform. Tort reform is, at least, a bullet.

Tort reform could take some of the wild unpredictability out of awards for noneconomic damages, cutting insurance costs.

Noneconomic damages are paid out in lawsuits for things like pain and suffering. It’s hard to put a number on how much someone’s pain or suffering is worth. Juries and judges can put a dollar value on lost wages and medical expenses. But putting a number on noneconomic damages is a lottery. And that drives up costs for everyone.

Even President Barack Obama said in September that while he doesn’t think medical malpractice reform is a silver bullet, he’s talked to enough doctors “to know that defensive medicine may be contributing to unnecessary costs.”

Oregon State Sen. Chris Telfer, RBend, and other Republican senators are trying to do something about it.

They have proposed putting a constitutional amendment before Oregon voters to let them decide if they should put a $1 million limit on noneconomic damages. Senate Joint Resolution 46 would apply to noneconomic damages for health care providers, nonprofits and public bodies.

Tort reform in Oregon has been tried many times. Legislative deadlock is the typical result. And that

unfortunately may be the case for the resolution Telfer has cosponsored.

There may be more hope for a novel approach by Oregon’s Office of Health Policy and Research. Working with the Oregon Patient Safety Commission, it wants to look at injury and insurance claim data. The idea would be to identify those types of injuries that led to the most claims.

Right now, Oregon doctors are expected to essentially do what their colleagues do when treating patients.

And so when a doctor is sued for malpractice, experts testify on what most doctors do.

Lynn-Marie Crider, a policy analyst for OHPR, said the two state agencies want to research whether it would work to take those injuries that lead to the most claims and establish guidelines for evidence-based treatments for those injuries. And then change Oregon law to say that for those injuries, the legal standard of malpractice would be whether the doctor followed the evidence-based treatment. It’s not an idea that has been fully implemented anywhere, Crider said.

The two state agencies applied for a grant under a new program Obama created. It may be September before they even hear if they get the grant.

In the meantime, instead of the same dreary deadlock that sours tort reform in Oregon, the Legislature should support Telfer’s amendment.

From ‘Oprah’ to Congo BUKAVU, Congo — ive years ago, Lisa Shannon watched “Oprah” and learned about the savage, forgotten war here in eastern Congo, played out in massacres and mass rape. That show transformed Lisa’s life, costing her a good business, a beloved fiance, and a comfortable home in Portland — but giving her a chance to save lives in Congo.

I found myself stepping with Lisa into a shack here. It was night, there was no electricity, and a tropical rainstorm was turning the shantytown into a field of mud and streams. Lisa had come to visit a woman she calls her sister, Generose Namburho, a 40-year-old nurse.

Generose’s story is numbingly familiar: Extremist Hutu militiamen invaded her home one night, killed her husband and prepared to rape her. Then, because she shouted in an attempt to warn her neighbors, they hacked off her leg above the knee with a machete.

As Generose lay bleeding near her husband’s corpse, the soldiers cut up the amputated leg, cooked the pieces on the kitchen fire, and ordered her children to eat their mother’s flesh. One son, a 12year-old, refused. “If you kill me, kill me,” he told the soldiers, as his mother remembers it. “But I will not eat a part of my mother.”

So they shot him dead. The murder is one of Generose’s last memories before she blacked out, waking up days later in the hospital where she had worked.

That’s where Lisa enters the story. After seeing the Oprah show on the Congo war, Lisa began to read more about it, learning that it is the most lethal conflict since World War II. More than 5 million had already died as of the last peer-reviewed mortality estimate in 2007.

Everybody told her that the atrocities continued because nobody cared. Lisa,

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Nicholas Kristof who is now 34, was appalled and decided to show that she cared. She asked friends to sponsor her for a solo 30-mile fundraising run for Congolese women.

That led her to establish Run for Congo Women, which has held fundraising runs in 10 American states and three foreign countries. The money goes to support sponsorships of Congolese women through a group called Women for Women International.

But in her passion, Lisa neglected the stock photo business that she and her fiance ran together. Finally, he signaled to her that she had to choose — and she chose Congo.

One of the Congolese women (“sisters”) whom Lisa sponsored with her fundraising was Generose. Lisa’s letters and monthly checks of $27 began arriving just in time.

“God sent me Lisa to release me,” Generose told me fervently, as the rain pounded the roof, and she then compared Lisa to an angel and to Jesus Christ.

Scrunching up in embarrassment in the darkened room, Lisa fended off deification. She noted that many impoverished Congolese families have taken in orphans. “They’ve lost everything,” she said, “but they take children in when they can’t even feed their own properly.

I’ve been so inspired by them. I’ve tried to restructure my life to emulate them.”

It’s true. While for years world leaders have mostly looked the other way, while our friend Rwanda has helped perpetu-

ate this war, while Congo’s president has refused to arrest a general wanted by the International Criminal Court, while global companies have accepted tin, coltan and other minerals produced by warlords — amid all this irresponsibility, many ordinary Congolese have stepped forward to share the nothing they have with their neighbors.

So Lisa is right that Generose and so many others here are awe-inspiring.

Lisa tells her story in a moving book, “A Thousand Sisters,” that is set to be published in April. Congo is now her obsession, and she is volunteering full time on the cause as she lives off the declining royalties from her old stock photos.

She earns psychic pay when she sees a woman here who named her daughter Lisa. After we visited Congolese Lisa, I asked American Lisa about the toll of her Congo obsession — the lost business, man and home they had shared.

“Technically, I had a good life before, but I wasn’t very happy,” she mused.

“Now I feel I have much more of a sense of meaning.”

Maybe that’s why I gravitate toward Lisa’s story. In a land where so many “responsible” leaders eschew responsibility, Lisa has gone out of her way to assume responsibility and try to make a difference. Along with an unbelievable cast of plucky Congolese survivors such as Generose, she evokes hope.

On this visit to Congo, Lisa is organizing a Run for Congo Women right here in Bukavu, for Feb. 28, with Congolese rape survivors participating. You can sponsor them at www.runforCongo women.org. And one of those participating in the run, hobbling along on crutches and her one leg, will be Generose.

Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times.

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Florida, we have a problem, but it’s not that big of a deal T Gail

he Obama administration’s proposed budget holds many surprises.

OK, you have to be kind of dorky to make that statement.

Still, how can you not be fascinated when the White House announces it wants to cancel plans to put an American on the moon by 2020?

Weren’t we already there? I have a distinct memory of watching a guy who looked a little like the Pillsbury Doughboy, planting an American flag in moon dirt back in 1969. The TV was black and white. Walter Cronkite was so excited.

And didn’t George W. Bush promise to get us to Mars? Well, the first step to Mars is apparently moon-visitation.

NASA now admits the best-case scenario for that is actually 2030.

The White House wants to save $3.4 billion a year with a game-changing/ paradigm-shifting space program that does not require any moon landings. The new goal is a little hazy. But it involves, as a spokeswoman for the space agency put it, “going farther, faster, to interesting destinations as we learn things.”

Beyond that, all I can tell you for sure is that it will be bold. But bold in a lessexpensive way.

In Washington, this is always a time of innocent hope, when earnest budgeteers look for unnecessary programs to ax so they can prove to the country that government is efficient.

This year, the Department of Education wins the fiscal tidiness award, having proposed to eliminate seven programs, consolidate 38 others and wipe

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out $123 million in earmarks.

Good work, Department of Education! And good luck actually getting rid of them.

Cutting a federal program is next to impossible because there’s usually somebody who cares much more about keeping it than the White House does about making it go away. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida is already making soft whimpering noises about the NASA budget cuts, which will, if necessary, eventually rise

to guttural howls.

Before the budget document even went out, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York had issued a scathing press release attacking plans to eliminate $5 million in grants to manufacturers of worsted wool.

“I will fight to make sure this proposal never sees the light of day,” said Schumer, who claimed that dropping the grants could ruin “Rochester’s iconic Hickey Freeman,” a men’s clothing company. It turned out that Hickey Freeman gets a different wool-manufacturer break entirely. Rochester is saved!

My own favorite target for extinction is a $9 million annual appropriation for museums and educational programs that highlight the “shared culture and tradition” of Alaskan Natives, Native

Hawaiians and “children and families of Massachusetts.”

In other words, whaling.

This was originally the idea of Ted Kennedy and two colleagues from Alaska and Hawaii. Perhaps they had all just finished rereading “Moby-Dick” in a Senate book club. Or maybe somebody bet them they couldn’t think of an earmark that would apply to only their three states.

In 2006, Congress did vote to add a fourth beneficiary of the whaling museum money — the Choctaw Indians of Mississippi. We’re pretty sure it has more to do with the state’s earmark-loving senior senator, Thad Cochran, than Mississippi’s rich whaling tradition.

Gail Collins is a columnist for The New York Times.

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housands in Tokyo have been echoing Barack Obama’s signature call for “change” — but as in “Change! Japanese-U.S. relations.”

Our military is rushing anti-missile batteries to Iran’s Arab neighbors in the Gulf in anticipation of new Iranian military escalation.

As in the case of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, the U.S. both gives the most aid to a devastated Haiti and still seems to receive the most criticism.

China has just warned us not to supply more armaments to Taiwan.

Our Predator drones continue to be the judge, jury and executioner of suspected terrorists in Pakistan.

What’s gone wrong with Obama’s dream of multilateral cooperation?

For starters, the world’s tensions were not caused by, and remain far larger, than George W. Bush — and thus cannot be so easily solved by his absence.

Obama also has apparently confused what people say with what nations do.

The world’s masses — most of them young, poor and non-Western — may applaud a hip, post-racial Barack Obama more than they ever would an old-money Texan like Bush. Obama may give soaring Wilsonian speeches abroad and be crowned with the Noble Peace Prize for his anointed vision of a new global brotherhood.

But, unfortunately, national leaders themselves do not behave like excited

Victor Davis Hanson concertgoers or European intellectuals.

Instead, they have only long-term selfinterests — not temporary emotional crushes — and so seek to expand their influence whenever they can.

Obama better understand that difference. A world without strong U.S. leadership really would become a far more dangerous place where the strong do as they please and the weak obey as they must.

After World War II, a reluctant America guaranteed a global system of secure trade and encouraged free-market capitalism and democracy. Both communist and fascist tyrants fought those efforts, eager to expand totalitarianism beyond their borders. And envious allies and neutral countries that benefited enormously from the American-enforced system resented the high profile of the United States.

All that responsibility was unpopular and costly for the United States. But the American people felt the activist bad choice was far better than the worse passive alternative of allowing more of the kind of chaos that had wrecked

much of civilization in the first half of the 20th century.

And if allies sometimes derided America, privately they were mostly relieved that there was some sort of policeman -- and that it was us and not an authoritarian China, Iran or Russia.

After winning the cold war, the United States continued to keep the peace that allowed a new globalization to lift millions worldwide out of poverty. In bipartisan fashion under Presidents Reagan, Bush I and II and Clinton, America dealt with right-wing and left-wing tyrants alike that threatened regional order, whether a Muammar al-Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Manuel Noriega or the Taliban.

Obama for practical and idealistic reasons may believe that America no longer can afford or should play that pre-eminent role; he may even believe that such prominence was never really needed and was mostly counterproductive.

That diffidence often certainly seems the message from Obama’s serial apologies, bowing, attacks on prior American foreign policy, and suggestions that tensions abroad are caused by misunderstandings — many of them our own — rather than irreconcilable differences in national character and objectives.

But he should at least admit that in such a vacuum of American power and influence, the natural order of things

abroad would be chaotic.

Let us hope that Obama learned that tragic fact when events heated up in 2009. Promising to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay; initially planning to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York; broadcasting supposed past American sins; issuing meaningless deadlines to Iran; and snubbing allies like Britain, Israel, Poland and the Czech Republic won’t win over enemies or ease world tensions.

Al-Qaida claims the Christmas Day attempt to blow up another American airliner — and promises more havoc to come. North Korea still demands bribe money to put aside its nukes. Russia is bragging about a new generation of weapons. Hugo Chavez keeps talking about becoming a regional bully with his new oil-supplied arsenal.

Implicit in all this braggadocio is a growing suspicion abroad, rightly or wrongly, that a more naive, more unsteady America is broke, tired and unwilling to confront challenges as in the past.

Right now the world’s bad actors confidently see “hope” for a vast “change” in the old world order — but not the kind Obama once so boldly promised.

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Maureen Dowd tion in the armed forces. Powell helped shape the gutless compromise that those who protect our country must live by a code of honor even while they’re legally bound to be less than honest.

Still traumatized by the 1993 pummeling Clinton endured, the Obama White House is inching forward, like soldiers under attack crawling on their bellies through the dirt, trying to avoid friendly fire from gay groups that want the law changed now and hostile fire from conservatives that want the law left alone.

Before Mullen and Secretary of Defense Bob Gates even made their opening statements, John McCain went on the attack against overturning the policy. Noting that gays and lesbians had served “admirably” and even given their lives, he said: “I honor their sacrifice, and I honor them.” Just as long as they deny their identity and pretend to be something they’re not.

The conservative senator who has always been known for honor and clarity cited “vast complexities” as a reason not to change the hypocritical policy, whatever that means, as well as the fact that “the Senate vigorously debated it in 1993.” (One complexity was our failure to realize that, with two wars in the Middle East, we might need some talented gay translators fluent in Arabic and Farsi.)

Yeah, nothing’s changed since 1993.

Even Powell now admits that “we definitely should re-evaluate it.” And Roland Burris, the Illinois senator, reminded his colleagues that it took Harry Truman to integrate the services: “At one time, my uncles and members of my race couldn’t even serve in the military, and we moved to this point where they’re some of the best and brightest that we’ve had — generals and even now the commander in chief is of African-American heritage.”

McCain jumped on his even-keeled fellow Republican, Bob Gates, and accused him of usurping congressional authority by saying the military was pre-emptively preparing for a repeal of the law. I guess the former war hero doesn’t believe in military readiness.

The Arizona senator said the law was “imperfect but effective,” even though Mullen’s military journal, Joint Force Quarterly, called it a “costly failure” and denied that the cohesion of the forces would be hurt if gays and lesbians could be open about their sexuality, as they are in Britain and Canada.

Three years ago, McCain told a group of college students that he would drop his objections on the issue “the day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, ‘Senator, we ought to change the policy.’”

But, on Tuesday, when that day came, McCain ignored the top brass and found his own military emeritus. He waved a letter at Gates and Mullen, saying it was “signed by over 1,000 former generals and flag officers who have weighed in” against changing the policy.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said that if they began to loosen one restriction, others might unravel, leading to a

ministration and among its allies, is over whether to make a stronger effort, now, to bring senior Taliban leaders to the table. There is deep skepticism that Mullah Omar (or leaders of the tough Haqqani network) would break with alQaida. But some experts say they think members of Omar’s inner circle might be willing.

“No one knows if the top Taliban leadership will come into a political deal,” says Semple, in part because they haven’t had to put their cards on the table. The removal of five ex-Taliban officials from a U.N. blacklist signals that it’s time for the Taliban to put forward a political platform.

I’ll admit I find it hard to imagine the Afghan Taliban morphing into a political party — one that no longer threatens Afghan minorities and women, Afghanistan’s neighbors, or us. But it’s a prospect worth exploring, while showing that the alternatives lead nowhere.

So let’s get on with the feelers — whether via Karzai, or the Pakistanis, or (caution here) the Saudis. As Michael Semple puts it, “This will be much more profound than reintegration, but the main show has not begun. The U.S. position has moved on, but nothing is at an advanced stage.”

Trudy Rubin is a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Tom Friedman is a columnist for The New York Times.

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Discharged gays Under the 1993 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, about 13,500 openly gay, lesbian and bisexual service persons have been discharged from the U.S. military.

1,273

1,200 900

428 600 300 0 1994

2001

2009

NOTE: All data except for 2009 includes the Coast Guard.

Source: Servicemembers Legal Defense Network McClatchy-Tribune News Service

louche atmosphere brimming with “alcohol use, adultery, fraternization and body art.” Don’t ask, don’t tat.

In 1993, Sam Nunn, the conservative Georgia Democrat who was the leader of the Armed Services Committee, famously gave lawmakers a tour of a submarine and its showers to show what close quarters sailors endured, implying that it would be impossible to separate the men from the men if gays were out.

So it was a welcome sign of how things have changed that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who stepped up to torpedo the hypocrisy, is an admiral.

Maureen Dowd is a columnist for The New York Times.

New debate is about bringing Taliban to table

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he new buzz on Afghanistan is all about talking to the Taliban.

In London, where nearly 70 countries gathered last week to help resolve Afghanistan’s problems, President Hamid Karzai called for a tribal assembly that would include the Taliban and would seek “peace and reconciliation.”

The media have gone wild with speculation about whether President Obama intends to off-load his Afghan problem by selling out to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, or whether Karzai pulled a fast one on his American mentors by reaching out to insurgents.

I suggest everyone take a deep breath.

The U.S. position toward talks with the Taliban has shifted somewhat, but no deal with top Taliban leaders is imminent, or even likely. As for Karzai’s efforts, they are part of an emerging U.S.Afghan strategy to woo Taliban who are willing to break with al-Qaida and rejoin the political scene.

The shift in U.S. strategy is impelled by recognition that there is no military solution to the Afghan violence. NATO commanders are focused on a bottom-up approach, referred to as “reintegration,” which hopes to wean away low- and mid-level Taliban who are in the fight for a paycheck, or because of grievances with government officials. “Reintegration is hugely important, informally or formally,” I was told by Gen. Stanley

Trudy Rubin McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Kabul, in a November interview.

U.S. efforts at reintegration are meant to parallel an Afghan government program that would ensure safety for Taliban who returned home. Karzai’s main mission in London was to raise funds for this program, which is supposed to provide returnees with economic aid and jobs.

A big caveat: A previous Afghan government effort at reintegration failed because the limited funds for the program were misused, and most of the claimants were not even Taliban. “It’s good to have a reintegration strategy, but you have to keep close tabs on the money,” said Michael Semple, a former Irish EU official in Afghanistan with deep knowledge of the country.

Tribes and ethnic groups that don’t get funds may be resentful, and efforts at reintegration may trigger rivalries among local and national Afghan politicians.

Indeed, Semple, who worked on a reintegration effort in tandem with the Afghan Ministry of Interior, got caught in such a

squeeze and was kicked out of the country, in December 2007.

U.S. officials are aware of this risk; when an entire Pashtun tribe recently agreed to fight back against the Taliban, military commanders promised them $1 million for economic development that won’t go through Afghan government hands. But the bigger strategic issue is whether to reach out to top Taliban commanders — as Karzai suggested in London. U.S. officials don’t oppose such outreach in principle.

“We believe our strategic problem with the Taliban begins and ends with their support for al-Qaida,” a U.S. official told me in Kabul in November. If Taliban commanders are ready to break with al-Qaida, and to enter the Afghan political arena, the United States would not oppose their return, he said.

U.S. commanders don’t believe, however, that top Taliban members will accept Karzai’s invite so long as they think they are winning. Indeed, the Taliban quickly rejected Karzai’s London offer, as the insurgents have done with previous such gestures, saying all NATO troops must leave first.

U.S. officials say they believe the troop surge and reintegration efforts are necessary to shift the momentum and convince some Taliban commanders that their options have narrowed.

The emerging debate, within the ad-

When economics meets politics DOHA, Qatar — ne of the few pleasant surprises of 2009 was that the world’s biggest economies were able to concentrate on healing themselves without any major wars or world-shaking political or geopolitical disruptions. What are the odds that 2010 will be so benign? I’d say quite low. No question, the world’s major economies badly need 2010 to be another quiet year politically and geopolitically, but that will require, at a minimum, that three major struggles — the banks vs.

President Obama, China vs. Google & friends, and the world vs. Iran — can be defused with win-win compromises rather than win-lose confrontations.

Let’s look at all three. Banks are like the heart that pumps blood — credit — to our country’s corporate muscles. If that heart is malfunctioning, any recovery will be anemic. But heart surgery is a very complex thing. You wouldn’t want yours done by a plumber or a politician. After all, a year ago there was a great clamor to nationalize some major banks; that would not have been a good idea. Moreover, our financial crisis was the result of a broad national breakdown in ethics — from borrowers to lenders to rating agencies to lawmakers. Don’t think for a second that bank reform alone is a cure-all.

We need a new banking regulatory regime that reduces recklessness without reducing risk-taking, which is the key to capitalism. It’s complicated. If the leading banks had any brains, they would take the initiative and offer their own ideas.

Surely, they can’t argue everything is just fine given the number of bank failures.

Let the administration and other leading central banks also offer their ideas, and then let’s try to forge something smart.

What the public has seen instead, though, are clueless bankers giving themselves bonuses after being rescued by taxpayers, while instructing the lobbyists and lawmakers they own to resist any serious reforms. At the same time, we’ve had President Barack Obama introducing his bank proposal, after his party’s Massachusetts defeat, in a way that seemed less intended to promote an intelligent discussion.

A senior British Treasury official told me at a background briefing in Davos: “Even America isn’t big enough to solve this problem on its own. … This is a global problem. … Be sure you understand the problem before you fix it.”

Banking reform has to be done carefully so that we end up with stronger banks lending more money. If the bankers want to be pigheaded and turn this into a war with the president, or the president wants to use bank-bashing to get his mojo back, there are a few things I can absolutely guarantee: more uncertainty, less lending, a slower recovery and fewer new jobs.

While the struggle between China and Google appears, on the surface, to be about Internet freedom, beneath the surface is a much deeper problem. As this newspaper reported last week, 34 American corporations have recently been targets of hacking attacks traceable to China. The CEO of one of the technology companies that was hit, who asked not to be identified because he is still debating whether to keep doing business in China, said that in his case the attacks involved attempts to vacuum up source codes, designs, business plans, and anything else they could get their hands on.

Memo to China: You are playing with fire. Sure, the U.S. also has its hackers, but industrial espionage on this scale is not coming out of the U.S. If this continues, China will see more than Google pull up stakes. And how many U.S. companies in the future will ever want to buy Chinese-made software or computer systems, which might only make it easier for Beijing to penetrate their businesses?

Finally, the U.S. and its allies are about to ratchet up pressure on Iran by unveiling a new economic-sanctions resolution at the U.N. aimed at Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and the vast network of financial institutions it controls inside Iran. If the U.N. will not act, the U.S. and key allies intend to impose the sanctions on their own. The Revolutionary Guards have become the regime’s primary tool for suppressing the popular uprising there and for protecting Iran’s nuclear program. Here in the Persian Gulf, apprehension is off the charts.

The economics of recovery were always hard, but in 2010 politics and geopolitics could make them even harder.

Pray that cooler heads prevail.

Defending the long gay line — again ’ve had high hopes for Adm. Mike Mullen ever since I learned that his mom was an assistant to Jimmy Durante and his dad was a Hollywood press agent whose clients included Bob Hope, Ann-Margret, Phyllis Diller, Jimmy Stewart, Carol Burnett and Dyan Cannon.

That’s the dream USO tour.

On Tuesday, the craggy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff showed that a lifetime in the military has not knocked all the showbiz pizazz out of him.

“I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens,” Mullen said during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on dropping the archaic “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. “For me personally, it comes down to integrity — theirs as individuals and ours as an institution.”

In heartfelt testimony to the senators, Mullen said: “I have served with homosexuals since 1968.” Acknowledging that they face death daily, he said that “putting individuals in a position that every single day they wonder whether today’s going to be the day, and devaluing them in that regard, just is inconsistent with us as an institution.”

In 1993, when Bill Clinton tried to do the right thing by allowing gays and lesbians in the military to be themselves, a predecessor of Mullen’s, Colin Powell, directed the embarrassingly public and retrograde rebellion by the generals against it, leading a conga line of heavy brass over to the White House to tell the president not to exercise his authority as commander in chief and order an end to one of the last vestiges of discrimina-

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B B E S T- S E L L E R S Publishers Weekly ranks the bestsellers for the week of Jan. 30.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn) 2. “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 3. “Kisser” by Stuart Woods (Putnam) 4. “Blood Ties” by Kay Hooper (Bantam) 5. “The First Rule” by Robert Crais (Putnam) 6. “I, Alex Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 7. “The Swan Thieves” by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown) 8. “The Girl Who Played With Fire” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf) 9. “The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) 10. “The Wolf at the Door” by Jack Higgins (Putnam) 11. “The Burning Land” by Bernard Cornwell (Harper) 12. “Roses” by Leila Meacham (Grand Central) 13. “Impact” by Douglas Preston (Forge) 14. “I, Sniper” by Stephen Hunter (Simon & Schuster)

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. “Game Change” by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin (Harper) 2. “I Am Ozzy” by Ozzy Osbourne (Grand Central) 3. “The Kind Diet” by Alicia Silverstone (Rodale) 4. “The Politician” by Andrew Young (St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne) 5. “Committed” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking) 6. “Have a Little Faith” by Mitch Albom (Hyperion) 7. “Stones Into Schools” by Greg Mortenson (Viking) 8. “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) 9. “Just Kids” by Patti Smith (Ecco) 10. “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin (Harper) 11. “Going Rogue” by Sarah Palin (Harper) 12. “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books) 13. “SuperFreakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow) 14. “Courting Disaster” by Marc A. Thiessen (Regnery)

MASS MARKET 1. “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) 2. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown) 3. “Hot Rocks” by Nora Roberts (Jove) 4. “The Elusive Bride” by Stephanie Laurens (Avon) 5. “McKettricks of Texas: Tate” by Linda Lael Miller (HQN) 6. “Angel’s Peak” by Robyn Carr (Mira) 7. “The Scarecrow” by Michael Connelly (Grand Central) 8. “Star Wars: Crosscurrent” by Paul S. Kemp (LucasBooks) 9. “The Devil’s Punchbowl” by Greg Iles (Pocket Star) 10. “Bone Crossed” by Patricia Briggs (Ace) 11. “The Silent Man” by Alex Berenson (Jove) 12. “The Cinderella Deal” by Jennifer Crusie (Bantam) 13. “Plum Spooky” by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s) 14. “The Associate” by John Grisham (Dell)

TRADE PAPERBACKS 1. “A Reliable Wife” by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin) 2. “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) 3. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold (LB/Back Bay) 4. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”

by Stieg Larsson (Vintage) 5. “Food Rules” by Michael Pollan (Penguin) 6. “The Blind Side” by Michael Lewis (Norton) 7. “The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) 8. “The Lost City of Z” by David Grann (Vintage) 9. “True Colors” by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s Griffin) 10. “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin (Penguin) 11. “The Shack” by William P. Young (Windblown Media) 12. “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein (Harper) 13. “Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) 14. “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin’s Griffin)

‘POINT OMEGA’

‘Psycho’meets Pentagon in new Don DeLillo novel “Point Omega”

by Don DeLillo (Scribner, 117 pgs., $24)

By Michiko Kakutani New York Times News Service

Richard Elster, the central character of “Point Omega,” Don DeLillo’s slender new novella, is a scholar who helped the Pentagon conceptualize an intellectual framework for the Iraq war. He is being courted by a filmmaker named Finley, who wants to make a documentary with him talking about the war. Picture Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice and some American Enterprise Institute thinkers put in a Cuisinart along with Robert McNamara as he appeared in Errol Morris’ movie “The Fog of War.” Like many of DeLillo’s earlier books, “Omega” is preoccupied with death and dread and paranoia, and like many of those books, it has an ingenious architecture that gains resonance in retrospect. But even its clever structural engineering can’t make up for the author’s uncharacteristically simplistic portrait of its hero: a pompous intellectual who shamelessly justifies sending thousands of young soldiers off to die in an unnecessary war with abstract, philosophical arguments, but who suddenly comes to know the meaning of death and loss firsthand when his beloved daughter abruptly disappears.

Instead of the jazzy, vernacular, darkly humorous language he employed to such galvanic effect in “White Noise” and “ Und e r world ,” DeLillo has chosen here to use the spare, etiolated, almost Beckettian prose he used in his 2001 novella, “The Body Artist,” and his 1987 play, “The Day Room.”

And in place of the electric, highly detailed observations of American life that animate “Libra” and “Mao II,” he has substituted dreary and highly portentous musings about mortality and time. There is talk about how time feels different in the desert from the way it does in a city, talk about life versus art and art versus reality, talk about an “omega point” where “the mind transcends all direction inward” — whatever that might mean.

Occasionally, Elster sounds like Donald Rumsfeld or George W. Bush, asserting that “a great power has to act,” that America needs “to retake the future.”

But more often, DeLillo makes Elster’s speechifying about the war willfully — and absurdly — cerebral: We’re told that he’s written an essay about the word “rendition,” with “references to Middle English, Old French, Vulgar Latin and other sources and origins,” and we hear him talk about wanting a “haiku war,” which would mean “nothing beyond what it is.”

All three central characters in this novel — Elster; Elster’s daughter, Jessie; and Finley — are alienated, oddly detached people. They are individuals dwelling in a limbo state, searching for something that might give order or meaning to their lives or simply shell-shocked by the randomness and menace of modern life.

Many earlier DeLillo characters, of course, share these aphasic qualities, but there is something disembodied and generic about these three. It’s hard to believe that Elster was ever called in by the government to consult on the Iraq war, just as it’s hard to believe that Finley is really a filmmaker or that Jessie does volunteer work with elderly people. They feel more like holograms than human beings.

After his stint with the gov-

ernment, Elster has retired to a house in the desert “to do nothing,” but sit around and think. He says he is there to “stop talking.”

What he feels there is “time becoming slowly older. Enormously old. Not day by day. This is deep time, epochal time.”

Finley has come to this desert retreat to try to persuade Elster to star in his movie: the documentary would feature this aging man talking about the war, his time in government and whatever else he wants to discuss.

In New York, Finley once introduced Elster to a movie called “24 Hour Psycho” at the Museum of Modern Art: an actual Conceptual art piece

by Douglas Gordon showing the Hitchcock film in such slow motion that it takes 24 hours to screen.

That piece raises some of the same themes that DeLillo appears to want to explore in these pages — reality and perception, identity and duplicity. It is the same work that Jessie (and possibly a man who has been following Jessie) has seen out of a desire to watch a movie in which, as she puts it, “nothing happening” seems to be the entire point.

Jessie is a strange young woman with a tendency to lapse into moods in which “she seemed deadened to anything that might bring a response.”

“Her look had an abridged quality, it wasn’t reaching the wall or window,” Finley says.

“I found it disturbing to watch her, knowing that she didn’t feel watched.”

Jessie’s mother — Elster’s estranged wife — has sent her out to the desert to get her away from a man whom she has gotten to know in New York.

Though Jessie’s arrival slightly shifts the dynamic between Elster and Finley, little happens for days. The three sit around together or apart. They eat sandwiches, talk about going on an expedition to look for bighorn sheep.

Finley has fantasies about having sex with Jessie; he asks her to sit with him and takes her hand, but she gives “no sign that she’d noticed.” And then, one day, when Elster and Finley return from a grocery run, the house is empty: Jessie is gone, vanished, nowhere to be found.

Although DeLillo extracts considerable suspense from his story, while building a Pinteresque sense of dread, there is something suffocating and airless about this entire production. Unlike the people in his most memorable novels, the three characters here do not live in a recognizable America or recognizable reality. Rather, they feel like roles written for a stylized and highly contrived theater piece: Elster, a paper tiger set up for a fall; Finley, his interlocutor, a forgettable loser; and Jessie, the sylphlike victim, whose disappearance will teach her father a lesson. They are roles desperately in need of actors to flesh them out and give them life.

Although (Don) DeLillo extracts considerable suspense from his story ... there is something suffocating and airless about this entire production.

Sam Shepard’s ‘Day’ of bits and pieces “Day Out of Days: Stories”

by Sam Shepard (Alfred A. Knopf, 282 pgs., $25.95)

By Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times

You can construct a body out of the stories, poems and inside-the-head dialogues in Sam Shepard’s “Day Out of Days” — as in that game, Exquisite Corpse. You fold up the paper and each person draws a different part. When you unfold the paper, you’ve got a funky body. This is the reason people always use words like “brutal,” “haunting” and “lean” to describe Shepard’s work: Each part is howling out some unfinished business. It’s not the aggression or the violence that gets you. It’s the cacophonous need. You’re just a reader. You can’t fill it.

Relax.

Shepard works hard to say something real. About himself but also about how our culture kills certain parts of us. No writer wants to be seen trying — Shepard’s generation, in particular, has prized a seeming effortlessness — but you can hear the gears grinding in his writing, especially in these stories, and it’s part of their deep, abiding appeal. Even better, it’s part of their usefulness.

One thing we value is continuity: same house, same job, same spouse. Well, these stories are fragmented all to hell. The only continuity lies in the place names; the roads in some of the story titles (“Indianapolis (Highway 78)” or “San Juan Bautista (Highway 152)”). But don’t grab on too tightly. Don’t start thinking this is some Kerouacian coming-of-age narrative. True, there’s quite a bit about “American lostness,” but Shepard’s characters are of age all right. They’re old enough to know what they can demand and what they can expect. And they’re falling to pieces in front of our eyes.

These people are surrounded by voices: “I now have an almost constant swirling chatter going on inside my head,” says one, “from dawn to dusk. I never could have foreseen this when I was five, playing with sticks in the dirt, but I guess it’s been slowly accumulating over all these sixty-some years; growing more intense, less easy to ignore. I wake up with it. I feed chickens with it. I drive tractors with it. I make coffee with it.

I fry eggs with it. I ride horses with it. I go to bed with it. I sleep with it. It is my constant companion.”

The chatter is inside the head, but it’s also in the culture. In many of the stories, a television in a public place cannot be turned off. Bloodcurdling images are paired with smiling faces and glossy

brochures. In “Cracker Barrel Men’s Room (Highway 90 West),” a man locked in a roadside restroom is forced to listen all night to a loop of Shania Twain whining and thanking Jesus. He tries to escape using a Swiss Army knife but cannot “drown the piercing voice.”

The chatter causes fragmentation: of memory, of self. “I forget lots of things these days, then suddenly something will come back, some thought or something, almost like a picture in my head that gives me this whole feeling about pieces of the past. A past I never lived in,” thinks the narrator of “Lost Art of Wandering (Highway 152, continued).”

The protagonist of “Costello,” now a movie star, goes searching for something in the town where he grew up. He meets a guy in a diner who recalls the creepy things they did together; the Benzedrine, the hit men, the whores.

Among the fragments — the random thoughts on photography, the missing fingers, the diseased heart, the infrequent insights into movie-making — are five stories featuring a severed head. A good man passes the head, which is in a basket in a ditch by the side of a road. The head begs the man to carry it to a nearby lake and dump it in. It whines, it threatens. The man wants nothing to do with it, but

he carries it. The head is so heavy he has to set it atop his own head for part of the trip. “ ‘Do you think you could open your eyes for me? Just once?’ asks the man. ‘No,’ says the head, without hesitation. ‘Why?’ asks the man.

‘Because you wouldn’t be able to take it,’ answers the head.”

Perhaps it would do a disservice to Shepard’s grave talent to parse this out; the role of the head, the meaning of the head.

What seems more interesting is the impulse to tell the stories, and the effort. The aggression, the short, hard sentences, the insistence on orientation are symptoms of a kind of desperation — the kind that makes you keep living when you just don’t feel like it anymore. It’s this same yearning the head has for the lake. “Why a lake, for instance,” it says, “when I came from the desert? Heat and sand. Why a lake for Christ’s sake?”

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Debunking a myth about slavery

Joshua Ferris’ intriguing new novel moves along, sure-footed and inexorable as its protagonist Tim Farnsworth, a Manhattan lawyer who seems to have everything we’d ever want: a high-paying, satisfying career; a rock-solid, 20-year marriage; a gorgeous house; plans for an African safari. Not even a recalcitrant teenage daughter can mitigate the peaks of Tim’s success.

What slows Tim down, though, is the unidentifiable condition — physiological? psychological? emotional? — that forces him into the streets to walk. And walk.

And walk. For hours or for days,

By Stephan Salisbury The Philadelphia Inquirer

The descent To tell this story, Manegold has chosen to focus on a piece of ground, 600 fertile acres along the Mystic River claimed by John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, the man who envisioned the colony and the Puritan destiny as a “city upon a hill.”

From this mount, Winthrop began the descent into slavery’s corruptions with a few Indians seized in war. His descendants continued that tradition and began to acquire Africans traded legally like hogs in Boston — or smuggled illicitly into the 17th century colony.

The farm eventually was sold and new owners deepened involvement with slaves, climaxing in the spectacular entanglements of Isaac Royall Jr., owner of vast sugar plantations in Antigua, master of hundreds of slaves,

beneficiary of immense wealth built on the enslavement and forced toil of kidnapped Africans.

The cash thrown off by the slave trade enriched not only the Royall family. Harvard University shared in the lucre. Slave money founded the Harvard Law School and endowed a professorship of law. In fact, President Barack Obama lived on the edge of Ten Hills Farm when he attended Harvard Law. America is a land of bitter ironies.

Even though the percentage of slaves in New England never rose much beyond 3 percent in the 17th and 18th centuries, the institution of slavery was absolutely essential to economic development, Manegold makes clear. The trade was everything, as historian Barbara Solow has noted: “What moved in the Atlantic in those centuries was predominantly slaves, the output of slaves, the inputs to slave societies, and the goods and services purchased with the earnings on slave products.”

There was no escape from this poisonous snake. Not that any of Manegold’s dreary cast of white characters sought escape. Certainly not the dour and humorless Winthrops. Or the grasping Ushers and Royalls and their kin who followed them as lords and ladies of Ten Hills Farm.

The farm, vividly described, serves as a synecdoche, a part that stands in for the whole — the whole of Boston and New England, the whole of the North, the whole of the supposedly New World.

Still a bitter past And there can be no mistake that slavery and its shadow, falling now into the 21st century, still hold tremendous potency in the public consciousness. Philadelphia has seen nine years of contention over how to acknowledge George Washington’s enslaved Africans held in bondage at the nation’s first executive mansion, the President’s House.

(The extent of the local Philadelphia involvement in slave dealing is slowly coming to light as well, most recently with the cataloging of the voluminous Chew family papers, which contain a hair-raising and casual experience with slavery and the trade.)

Manegold tells this story with fluency and narrative energy.

Her prose is elegant, although occasionally it skirts anachronism: “this was a time of alpha men” distracts rather than illuminates when applied to the early 18th century.

That’s a quibble. Manegold, who has delved deeply and resourcefully into historical records in this country and Antigua, makes vivid what has not so much been forgotten as suppressed. No easy task.

Hamilton’s latest is a ‘Lock’ “The Lock Artist”

by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur, 320 pgs., $24.99)

By Oline H. Cogdill Sun Sentinel (Florida)

Edgar-winner Steve Hamilton has proven to be an author whose work gets better with each of seven superior novels. But unconventional “The Lock Artist” surpasses even Hamilton’s standards as the author looks at the aftermath of a young boy’s trauma.

The narrator of “The Lock Artist” is Mike, who, by the time he was 18 years old, had been called many things: “I was the Miracle Boy, once upon a time. Later on, The Milford Mute. The Golden Boy. The Young Ghost. The Kid. The Boxman. The

“The Unnamed”

by Joshua Ferris (Reagan Arthur, 320 pgs.. $24.99) McClatchy-Tribune News Service

“Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North”

by C.S. Manegold (Princeton University Press, 317 pgs., $29.95)

Early on in “Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North,” C.S. Manegold’s intimate and sobering account of slavery’s hold on New England, we encounter Samuel Maverick, master of Noddles Island in Boston Harbor.

In the autumn of 1638, while visiting Maverick, Englishman John Josselyn was startled to find a black woman at his bedroom window. She entreated him in her native language and so impressed Josselyn with her urgency that he asked Maverick about her.

Oh, the master said, as Josselyn recounted in his 1674 travelogue, there were plans for the woman, formerly an African queen. Maverick was “desirous to have a breed of Negroes,” Josselyn wrote, “and therefore seeing she would not yield by persuasions to company with a Negro young man he had in his house; he commanded him will’d she nill’d she to go to bed to her, which was no sooner done than she kicked him out again, this she took in high disdain beyond her slavery, and this was the cause of her grief.”

Boston had, only a few months before, received its first batch of African captives for sale on the docks — brought to these shores in the hold of the ship Desire. Already the rapes were plotted and designed for profit.

Manegold, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, has taken on one of the most persistent American myths: that slavery was a negligible institution north of the Mason-Dixon Line and that whatever slavery there was in the North was of a much milder variety than the slavery of the South.

What happened to the defiled African queen and the young man after the enforced rape, we do not know. The written record is silent. We know only that slavery had arrived and that “like a poisonous snake gliding off a river rock, it laid its curse without much trace,” in the author’s chilling and apt metaphor.

Dark novel is very different from Ferris’ debut

By Connie Ogle

‘Ten Hills Farm’ takes readers into a dark slice of U.S. history

Lock Artist. That was all me. But you can call me Mike.”

The aftermath of a tragedy at age eight left Mike unable to speak. He expresses himself in his detailed artwork and his expertise at picking locks, especially on safes. But his art isn’t likely to get him trouble as picking locks has. When we first met Mike, he is finishing the ninth year of a 10year prison sentence that began when he was 18 years old.

“The Lock Artist” is light years removed from Hamilton’s firstclass series about private investigator Alex McKnight. While we hope that Hamilton again will return to Alex, the author shows that “The Lock Artist” has more unusual tales to tell.

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until he drops exhausted, and his wife Jane — if he has been lucid enough to call her before passing out — desperately races to find him before something unthinkable happens.

The premise of Ferris’ second novel is strange but bracingly original, a marked departure from his mordantly clever debut, “Then We Came to the End,” a National Book Award finalist and PEN/Hemingway winner that slyly satirized employees of a modern-day ad agency facing the ugly truths of the dotcom bust. “The Unnamed” is darker and far more unsettling — even if, like most of us, you’ve experienced the fear and insanity that erupts as layoffs decimate an office.

“The Unnamed” is about loss,

too, but no humor mitigates the ominous facts. If Tim keeps walking — one doctor calls his condition “benign idiopathic perambulation,” though this demon seems anything but unthreatening — sooner or later he’ll lose his job, his house, his wife, his life.

Tim vacillates between melancholy and determination: “Depression followed in lock step with each recurrence,” Ferris writes, but “sadness always gave way to a bout of pugnacity in which he thought again, “I’m going to beat this thing.”

But Jane, too, is engaged in this seemingly unwinnable battle.

Forced to give up her real-estate career to monitor her husband’s whereabouts, she wavers in the face of what is swiftly becom-

ing an emotional apocalypse.

“Wouldn’t it have been a luxury to have some crystal ball into which a diviner gazed to map for the young couple their future in sickness and in health, the specifics therein. This one — pointing to the man — is no good for you. Not too long down the line, sweetheart, he will break, and you will be left carrying the load. ... Because a failing body is no grounds for divorce.”

Ferris is equally compassionate to both parties. Surprisingly, almost tenderly, and despite his unrelenting refusal to churn out a predictable happy ending, he turns “The Unnamed” into a most unorthodox love story about commitment and sacrifice.

“Was she up for this?” Jane asks herself. Turns out she and Tim are as up for the whims of fate as any of us can be.

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Elizab eth Edward s teeters on her pedestal

Cells Continued from E1 The book raises troubling questions about the way Lacks and her family were treated by researchers and about whether patients should control or have financial claims on tissue removed from their bodies.

By Judith Warner New York Times News Service

A mournful loss, a medical gain The story began in January 1951, when Lacks was found to have cervical cancer. She was treated with radium at Johns Hopkins, the standard of care in that day, but there was no stopping the cancer. Her doctor had never seen anything like it.

Within months, her body was full of tumors, and she died in excruciating pain that October.

She was 31 and left five children, the youngest just a year old. She had been a devoted mother, and the children suffered terribly without her.

Neither Lacks nor any of her relatives knew that doctors had given a sample of her tumor to Dr. George Gey, a Hopkins researcher who was trying to find cells that would live indefinitely in culture so researchers could experiment on them. Before she came along, his efforts had failed. Her cells changed everything: they multiplied like crazy and never died.

A cell line called “HeLa” (for Henrietta Lacks) was born.

Those immortal cells soon became the workhorse of laboratories everywhere. HeLa cells were used to develop the first polio vaccine, they were launched into space for experiments in zero gravity and they helped produce drugs for numerous diseases, including Parkinson’s, leukemia and the flu. By now, literally tons of them have been produced.

Gey did not make money from the cells, but they were commercialized. Now they are bought and sold every day the world over, and they have generated millions in profits.

The Lacks family never got a dime. They were poor, with little education and no health insurance, and some had serious physical or mental ailments. But they didn’t even know that tissue had been taken or that HeLa cells even existed until more than 20 years after Lacks’ death. And they found out only by accident, when her daughter-in-law met someone from the National Cancer Institute who recognized her surname and said he was working with cells from “a woman named Henrietta Lacks.”

The daughter-in-law rushed home and told Lacks’ son, Lawrence, “Part of your mother, it’s alive!”

When they learned that their mother’s cells had saved lives, the family felt proud. But they also felt confused, a bit frightened, used and abused. It had never occurred to anyone to ask permission to take their mother’s tissue, tell them that her cells had changed scientific history or even to say thank you. And certainly no one had ever suggested that they deserved a share of the profits.

Some of the Lackses later gave blood to Hopkins researchers, thinking they were being tested for cancer, when really the scientists wanted their genetic information to help determine whether HeLa cells were contaminating other cultures. When Pullum-Lacks asked a renowned geneticist at the hospital, Victor McKusick, about her mother’s illness and the use of her cells, he gave her an autographed copy of an impenetrable textbook he had edited, and, Skloot writes, “beneath his signature, he wrote a phone number for Deborah to use for making appointments to give more blood.”

The bounds of fairness, respect and simple courtesy all seem to have been breached in the case of the Lacks family. The gulf between them and the scientists — race, class, education — was enormous and made communication difficult.

The book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by journalist Rebecca Skloot, tells the story of Lacks, the author’s own adventures with Lacks’ five grown children and questions the troubling line between fairness and charity over Lacks’ “HeLa” medical advancing cervical cancer cells.

New York Times News Service

A less charitable view is that it might have made the Lackses easier to ignore.

When the family’s story became known in the black community in Baltimore, Skloot writes, it was seen as the case of a black woman whose body had been exploited by white scientists.

Issues over tissue Ideas about informed consent have changed in the last 60 years, and the forms now given to people having surgery or biopsies usually spell out that tissue removed from them may be used for research. But Skloot points out that patients today don’t really have any more control over removed body parts than Lacks did. Most people just obediently sign the forms.

Which is as it should be, many scientists say, arguing that Lacks’ immortal cells were an accident of biology, not something she created or invented, and were used to benefit countless others.

Most of what is removed from people is of no value anyway, and researchers say it would be too complicated and would hinder progress if ownership of such things were assigned to patients and royalties had to be paid.

But in an age in which people can buy songs with the click of a mouse, that argument may become harder to defend.

So far, the courts have sided with scientists, even in a case in the 1980s in which a leukemia patient’s spleen and other tissues turned out to be a biomedical gold mine — for his doctor. The patient, John Moore, sued his doctor after discovering that the doctor had filed for a patent on his cells and certain proteins they made, and had created a cell line called “Mo” with a market value estimated at $3 billion. Moore ultimately lost before the California Supreme Court.

As Skloot writes in her last chapter, this issue is not going away. If anything, it may become increasingly important, because the scale of tissue research is growing, and people are becoming savvier about the money to be made and also the potential for abuse if tissue samples are used to ferret out genetic information.

The notion of “tissue rights” has inspired a new category of activists. The question that comes up repeatedly is, if scientists or companies can commercialize a patient’s cells or tissues, doesn’t that patient, as provider of the raw material, deserve a say about it and maybe a share of any profits that result? Fewer people these days may be willing to take no for an answer.

Yet another illusion has been shattered.

In a new book about the 2008 presidential campaign, “Game Change,” Elizabeth Edwards is portrayed as “an abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending crazywoman,” and nothing like her image as “St. Elizabeth.”

According to the book’s authors, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin — well before John Edwards’ affair with the New Age videographer Rielle Hunter — Elizabeth Edwards was known to demean her husband (“She called her spouse a ‘hick’ in front of other people and derided his parents as rednecks”) and to bully his staff.

“The nearly universal assessment among them,” the authors write of the long-suffering Edwards aides, “was that there was no one on the national stage for whom the disparity between public image and private reality was vaster or more disturbing.”

The revelations are sometimes unsourced and often omniscient.

The authors’ suggestions that Elizabeth Edwards’ sharp tongue drove her husband out on the road, and in “steering clear of his wife,” he ended up in the arms of Hunter, have been denounced as sexist and insensitive to Elizabeth Edwards’ real suffering.

And so the Edwards saga continues, a private story turned public preoccupation. Clearly, there is much more at stake in preserving or attacking her image than establishing who-saidwhat-to-whom-and-when in the Edwards entourage.

Elizabeth Edwards’ story has long been appropriated by many women as a symbol, a stand-in on a much larger scale for their own suffering and stoicism.

Before the news of the Rielle Hunter affair, the Edwards story made many women happy.

It wasn’t just that Elizabeth Edwards — who looked considerably older than her eternally baby-faced husband — was a woman they admired and believed in.

Her story made them believe something good about themselves. It was a kind of Everywoman’s fable: Behind the imperfect physical shell, a gem of inner beauty resides. And is loved and recognized.

This story was a dream come true for many women. “I like that he’s got a fat wife,” a woman in a focus group told an Edwards pollster in his 1998 Senate race, as recounted in “Game Change.”

“I thought he’d be married to a Barbie or a cheerleader.”

If it was thus for Elizabeth Edwards, there was hope for us all.

Of course, now reality has hit, and with it, perhaps, an unwelcome message: In unhappy marriages, there are rarely pure victims — even if one spouse’s behavior is grossly more offensive than the other’s.

Patrick Andrade / New York Times New Service file photo

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Sen. John Edwards, is seen at a press conference in Manchester, N.H., in 2007. In the book “Game Change,” the authors’ refer to Elizabeth an abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending crazywoman,” and even suggest that Edwards’ sharp tongue drove her husband into the arms of another woman.

Yana Paskova / New York Times New Service file photo

Sen. John Edwards and wife Elizabeth stand together in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in January 2008. In the book about the 2008 presidential campaign, the authors, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, offer a perspective in defense of John and his unhappy marriage.

“Edwards kept painting Hunter as a fame seeker, eager to glom onto her husband’s spotlight,” Tina Brown wrote on her Web site, The Daily Beast. “Whereas it’s Edwards who has written the

book and dragged Hunter into the media glare.”

Other women rushed to Elizabeth Edwards’ defense. She had after all been through so much, they said. The death of a child,

cancer, her husband’s betrayal.

Whose personality wouldn’t fray under such pressure?

As she braces herself against the current media storm (and prepares for another tell-all next month from a former aide), Elizabeth Edwards might do well to remember her past. She was perhaps never more admired than in her most notable moment of absence: when she chose not to appear by her husband’s side as he went on “Nightline” in 2008 to make his mea culpas about the Hunter affair to the American public.

She was contrasted favorably then with another wronged wife of that year, Silda Wall Spitzer, who stood quietly and wretchedly at her husband’s side as he admitted to the sexual misdeeds that led him to resign as New York’s governor.

But now the silent, stalwart Silda Spitzer — private, dignified, ultimately controlling her story by the very act of not telling it — doesn’t look like such a sap.

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Woes and woe is me In truth, Elizabeth Edwards had already begun falling from her pedestal last year, when she published her book, “Resilience,” about facing life’s adversities, and embarked upon a media tour that seemed intended to draw the entire country into her marital woes. She talked of preparing her children for her death, and justified spending so much of her limited time with them out on the road by telling Matt Lauer, “I hope I have important things to say.”

She toured her multimilliondollar home with Oprah Winfrey, and in her book dismissed Hunter as one of those “people” who are attracted to “those with any fame or notoriety or power,” adding, “They look at our lives, which from the outside in particular are pictures of joy and plenty, and they want it for themselves.”

Her tone seemed off, and many critics called her on it.

Julie Compton to the rescue “Rescuing Olivia”

by Julie Compton (Minotaur, 352 pgs., $25.99)

By Oline H. Cogdill Sun Sentinel (Florida)

Orlando author Julie Compton poses an intriguing view of love in her second stand-alone novel: How well do you know the person you love and, if the worst happened, what would you do to save her?

Anders Erickson is put to the test when a motorcycle accident leaves Olivia Mayfield, his girlfriend of

five months, in a coma following a romantic visit to the Ocala National Forest. The couple’s motorcycle helmets were stolen and Olivia was seriously injured when a car ran them off the road.

When Anders tries to visit Olivia in the hospital, her controlling, nasty father, Lawrence, refuses to allow him in her room and bans him from finding out any information about her, blaming Anders for the accident. A few days later, Lawrence, a pharmaceutical magnate, tells Anders that Olivia has died and will be buried in a pri-

vate service. But Anders can’t find any official notice of her death and Olivia’s hospital file has been wiped clean. Anders’ investigation centers on two men who have manipulated Olivia her entire life, her father and her ex-fiance, Iraq war veteran Brent Campbell.

But the heart of “Rescuing Olivia” remains Anders’ and Olivia’s credible relationship and how these two people deal with their past and their future with each other. “Rescuing Olivia’s” romantic undertones strengthen the story.

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Unpaid water bill turns into stiff eye-opener Oregon irrigation districts can place lien on home, seek foreclosure

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B U S I N E SS IN BRIEF ‘Clunkers’ crushing deadline extended SEATTLE — The federal government has extended the number of days that car recyclers have to crush vehicles they received under the popular “Cash for Clunkers” program over the summer.

Initially, they were required to crush or shred clunkers within 180 days of receiving them or face a $15,000-per-car fine.

The National Highway and Safety Administration has extended the crush deadline by 90 days, to 270 days altogether, as part of the program officially called the Car Allowance Rebate System.

With the extra three months’ leeway, recyclers have more time to sell radiators, tires, batteries and other parts before crushing the cars and selling them for scrap metal.

The extension could mean more money for recyclers, and more deals for consumers who pay far less for parts at wrecking yards than for new car parts.

“This is good news,” said Gary Smith, a spokesman for the Automotive Recyclers of Washington. “It’s good news for the environment and good news for the industry.”

The program ran from July 27 to Aug. 24.

Mortgage rates rise slightly for week Thirty-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.01 percent last week, Freddie Mac reported Thursday. That was up from the week before when the rate averaged 4.98 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.25 percent.

The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage last week averaged 4.40 percent, up slightly from the week before when it averaged 4.39 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year rate averaged 4.92 percent, Freddie Mac reported.

“Mortgage rates remained relatively stable for a second week amid news of a strengthening housing market,” Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist, said in a press release.

“Residential fixed investment rose for two consecutive quarters over the last half of 2009 following a steady quarterly decline since the beginning of 2006. Pending existing home sales rebounded by 1 percent in December from a record drop in November that was due in part to the original expiration of the homebuyer tax credit, according the National Association of Realtors.

More recently mortgage applications for home purchases jumped 10 percent at the end of January, according to figures from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

— From wire reports

Home sales rise Pending home sales rose in December as more people prepared to buy homes.

Cris Mercer chose to accept a $5 per month late fee on his 2009 Tumalo Irrigation District water bill in order to delay paying the $740 bill he owed, in part because of hard economic times he’d recently experienced.

He planned to sell his land and home on Gerking Market Road and figured he could pay off the bill after the sale.

Then, October came around and brought with it a surprise: The irrigation district had placed a lien on Mercer’s $500,000 piece of property because he hadn’t paid. Along with that, Mercer’s bill had

compounded to nearly $5,000 because of the attorney’s fees associated with the lien and a suit by the district to foreclose.

“I was floored by how aggressive (the irrigation district) is,” Mercer said at his home in mid-January.

Mercer admits he did not regularly open his mail for months prior to the lien, which could have prevented the escalated costs, adding he did later find letters from Tumalo asking him to pay up. He said he never received a phone call from Tumalo Irrigation District, however, to warn him of the lien or the increasing legal fees.

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Cris Mercer chose not to pay his 2009 Tumalo Irrigation District bill on time, thinking he would be charged $5 per month in late fees until he sold his property and could pay off the tab. He ended up paying much more.

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REAL ESTATE

MOTOR VEHICLES

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Property sales/lease sector in Deschutes County produced $229.6 million in business in 2007.

Retail on four wheels revved up the revenue with $708.7 million in sales and 1,586 employees two years ago.

Economic census data counted 72 furniture and home furnishing stores in Deschutes County.

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n Deschutes County in 2007, businesses that sold vehicles and parts ruled retail.

New- and used-car dealers, recreational vehicle, motorcycle and boat dealers, and those who sold tires and other parts, racked up nearly $708 million in sales, more than any other category in Deschutes County’s retail trade sector.

That’s according to recently released census information compiled from forms mailed to 4 million businesses in Oregon and the United States in December 2007 as part of the 2007 Economic Census.

While the Census Bureau may be best known for its once-a-decade population count, the agency also conducts an economic census every five years.

Federal law requires it, and also requires businesses receiving the forms to fill them out. Release of 2007 Economic Census data began around mid-2009 and should be completed later this year.

The information offers a snapshot of business activity at the national, state, county and city levels, in some cases.

Unfortunately, it’s about 2 years old.

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Summary statistics for three business sectors in Deschutes County from the 2007 Economic Census Sales, shipments, receipts, revenue Number of establishments or business done

Sector: Retail trade Total Motor vehicle and parts dealers Furniture and home furnishings stores Electronics and appliance stores Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers Food and beverage stores Health and personal care stores Gasoline stations Clothing and clothing accessories stores Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores General merchandise stores Miscellaneous store retailers Nonstore retailers Sector: Real estate and rental and leasing Total Real estate professional services Rental and leasing services Sector: Accommodation and food services Total Accommodations Food services and drinking places

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f you need proof that USA Cycling’s Cyclo-cross National Championships that were held in Bend in December were good for the city’s economy, two reports released last week should dispel any doubts and support pursuing more such events.

For one, the race generated nearly $1.1 million in direct tourist spending in the city, among other benefits, according to an economic impact study.

For another, the city’s room-tax collections, the best indicator of tourism activity, jumped 22.7 percent in December over December 2008. That was a welcome boost for a city that had not seen a year-over-year increase in roomtax collections since February 2008.

Good early-season snow conditions at Mt. Bachelor ski area surely helped December’s performance, too. But the big room-tax gain in Bend versus a 14.2 percent drop in collections in unincorporated Deschutes County points to the races as a key differentiator.

Underlying the positive numbers is a refreshing focus by Visit Bend, the city’s tourism-promotion arm, to base its marketing and special events spending on good research to ensure the best return on public room-tax dollars.

“We do see it as a responsibility of ours as stewards of public funds to be a data-driven organization,” said Doug La Placa, president and CEO of Visit Bend, which contracted the cycling event and others related to it.

It got that data in the cyclocross impact study conducted by Kreg Lindberg, professor in tourism and outdoor recreation at Oregon State UniversityCascades Campus. He did the study through his consulting company, not OSU, but his background ensured an objective look at survey data from race participants and their travel parties.

He shared results of the survey in a detailed 27-page report dissecting visitors’ spending, where they stayed, demographics and more and compared that with Bend’s non-event visitor research.

(To see Lindberg’s full report, visit www.visitbend.com, go to the “about us” tab, click on “Bend visitor research survey,” then click on the report for the OSU study on the cyclocross event.)

Visit Bend commissioned Lindberg, at a cost of about $1,500, to do the study independent of the agency.

“An organization can come up with data that serves a special purpose,” La Placa said. “That is not the case in the research that we are investing in.”

Lindberg crunched the numbers as he saw them, which he also did in a study last summer on the USA Cycling Junior, U23 and Elite Road National Championships that Visit Bend attracted. That event generated about $1.4 million in direct visitor spending, Lindberg found.

The races, aside from pumping new money into a community that desperately needs it these days, generate additional spending as people who work in the industry spend their tips, wages and profits — the so-called multiplier effect.

Lindberg’s study of cyclocross also found 10 percent of the visitors answered “definitely yes” to the question of whether they would consider moving to or buying real estate in Bend as a result of their visit; 39 percent answered “possibly yes.” Those numbers are impressive, Lindberg said.

Which brings up another benefit of tourism and special events like cyclocross: They introduce the region to new people and become economic-development tools that can attract residents and entrepreneurs. “For an economy like ours … to get new people moving into (the) area and new businesses moving into our area using tourism as a gateway has substantial benefits,” La Placa said.

Cyclocross attracted people from 43 states, most of which aren’t Bend’s typical source of visitors, proving that events create “new product trial,” La Placa said.

Lindberg’s study also showed many would return to or recommend Bend.

Gary Fish, president of Bend-based Deschutes Brewery Inc., which was a cyclocross sponsor, said the event exceeded his company’s expectations.

“This struck me as one of the events that make this such a wonderful community to live in and visit,” he said in an e-mail. “Quality events like the Cascade Cycling Classic, Pole Pedal Paddle and many others attract visitors who eventually become contributing residents.”

Lindberg’s study and December’s tourism surge prove Bend has hit a valuable business vein that it should continue to exploit.

John Stearns, business editor, can be reached at 541-617-7822 or at jstearns@bendbulletin.com.

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Th e places they go when banks say no

By Andrew Martin New York Times News Service

In the glory days of the digital photo frame business, when his products were still a novelty and shoppers were flush with cash, getting a bank loan to manufacture them was a cinch, Michael Levy says.

“We would say: ‘We got a $1 million order from the Sharper Image. We need financing.

With a snap of the fingers, the guy drove down to my office, we’d sign a document, he’d give us the money,” Levy recalls, sitting in the Deer Park, Long Island, office of the Media Street Group that he runs with his brother, Norm.

But like many other business owners, Levy saw his prospects change drastically in 2008 as the financial crisis unfolded. The Sharper Image and several other top customers filed for bankruptcy, and Levy found himself scrambling to keep the business afloat.

His longtime bank wanted nothing to do with his company, Levy says, and several other banks spurned his loan requests, too. After a year of hand-wringing, he found an unconventional lender that was still making loans — lots of them.

It’s called Hartsko Financial Services, and it provides shortterm credit to small and midsize companies that sell everything from olive oil to women’s sandals. In the last year or so, companies have been beating a path to Hartsko, and to other businesses like it — even if the loans are vastly more expensive than traditional ones from banks.

Richard Eitelberg, Hartsko’s founder and president, said his company previously fielded many loan requests from companies on the financial brink.

Now, he says, Hartsko can also pick from companies with solid financials that simply can’t get a bank loan. “What we are seeing is better deals than we did in the past,” Eitelberg said. “We were viable when banks were lending.

Now we are overwhelmed.”

Hartsko’s office, which is surrounded by Irish pubs in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens, is a sharp departure from the sterile cubicles and prefabricated offices of most major bank branches.

At Hartsko, nine employees vie for space in three modest rooms jammed with computers, printers and fax machines.

Eitelberg, a burly 47-year-old sports fan who favors untucked dress shirts and open collars, decorates his office with trinkets honoring New York sports teams; a full lineup of the Mets, in miniature, adorns a shelf behind his desk.

Just as the credit squeeze has pushed some consumers to unconventional sources of funding like pawn shops and payday lenders, a constriction in traditional bank lending to businesses has benefited companies like Hartsko.

Small-business owners say banks routinely reject applications for loans that were readily available just two years ago. To help ease the situation, President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address Jan. 27, proposed giving $30 billion to community banks to make loans to small business.

Demand and decline Recently, the Treasury Department began tracking lending by the 22 largest bank recipients of federal bailout money, and it found a sizable decrease in small-business lending.

During a seven-month period ended in November, the banks reduced their small-business lending by $12.5 billion, an overall decline of 4.6 percent, the data show. Wells Fargo and Bank of America, the two biggest small-business lenders, cut their lending by 4.4 percent and 6.2 percent, respectively, during that time.

John Durrant, a senior vice president at Bank of America who oversees small-business loans, said that roughly half of the decline in lending to small businesses was attributable to decreased demand. In addition, he said a decline in sales and creditworthiness among small businesses had contributed to the slowdown.

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Michael Levy runs the Media Street Group, which manufactures digital picture frames.

Levy said that after the financial crisis, his traditional bank refused to finance a big order he received. As credit for small businesses remains tight, many are turning to unconventional lenders, and there are plenty. lion to small and midsize businesses in 2009 and plans to increase its lending by $5 billion this year, he said.

Banks, of course, are now more reluctant to hand over money to small and midsize companies partly because the practice is riskier than it was just a few years ago, when consumers were spending freely. Banks are writing off record numbers of bad loans and have tightened their underwriting standards to limit their losses.

“After Chase said no, I went to Citibank. I went to Capitol One. I wasn’t going to sit around waiting,” said Levy, explaining that he needed to borrow $1 million last year for $1.5 million in purchase orders for new products, including frames with Wi-Fi access. “All of them said the same thing: ‘the underwriters, the underwriters.’ They just tightened and, boom, they just shut it off.”

Doin’ it old school When small businesses face funding squeezes, Eitelberg and others like him offer an enticing, if expensive, pitch for desperate entrepreneurs.

He peddles what is known as purchase-order financing to companies that sell goods but often manufacture them in factories abroad. It is a relatively new line of business — he estimates it’s about 20 years old — and a twist on the ancient and much larger practice of factoring, in which a business sells an invoice at a discount to get its money faster, providing the factoring company with a hefty fee.

Purchase-order financing, though similar to factoring, is further up the financial food

chain. Purchase orders are written guarantees from a buyer that it is committed to purchasing a product. By financing purchase orders, Eitelberg essentially pays the factory to manufacture the goods. Hartsko also pays to have the finished products shipped from the factory. Once Hartsko is paid for the merchandise, it takes its cut and hands over the rest to its customer.

There are only a half-dozen or so major purchase-order financing companies in the country, and overall numbers on their business are hard to come by.

A Hartsko competitor, Edward P. King, who founded the Dallas-based King Trade Capital 17 years ago, said his business grew about 10 percent in 2009. He said he could have done two or three times as much business but was cautious, given the uncertainty of the economy.

“It was a risky year,” King said.

“We could have grown an enormous amount, but I’m not sure we wouldn’t be fighting some battles right now.”

(Banks may dabble in purchase-order financing, but usually only for existing clients. One big bank that has a separate unit for such lending, Wells Fargo, says that this business has increased, even while its traditional smallbusiness lending has dropped.)

Eitelberg says he doesn’t care much about his customers’ credit scores or their past financial problems. He simply wants to know that they have a solid deal in the works and a purchase order to prove it. “We look for a viable transaction when we do business, not the net worth of the company or the balance sheet,” he said. “We say we look past the balance sheet.”

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Small businesses are turning to alternative lenders like Richard Eitelberg of Hartsko Financial Services in Queens, N.Y. “We were viable when banks were lending. Now we are overwhelmed.”

‘It’s almost like loan sharking’ Eitelberg estimates that his business increased 80 percent in 2009. But his money doesn’t come cheap. It’s typically 3.5 percent for the first 30 days, and 1.25 percent for every 10 days after that, an annualized percentage north of 40 percent. Most loans, he says, are repaid within 60 days.

“For lack of a better word, it’s almost like loan sharking,” said Levy, who said his bank loans were at 6 or 7 percent annualized interest. “But, there’s a need. I had no choice. It’s the only way I was going to get the business.

“I know I paid them a lot, but without them, I would have been home watching cartoons.”

Eitelberg bristles at such comments, saying purchase-order lending is ultimately a risky business and that his fees are more than justified. He says he bases his fees on industry averages and the cost for Hartsko to borrow money from a bank.

“We’re just saying that for the period of time when you are using our bank lines and our cash to run your business that you pay us a fee for what that’s worth,” he said. “We believe it’s a rate that is fair.”

Eitelberg began Hartsko in 2004 after working for years on the financial side of the garment industry, following in the footsteps of his father, who ran a women’s swimwear company. He says he worked for several garment companies that struggled to stay afloat and had to seek purchase-order financing, often called PO financing. Eitelberg said he had an epiphany one day that he was in the wrong business.

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“I said: ‘It’s amazing, the only person that came out of this thing was the PO financing company.

They made a ton of money and these companies died,’” he recalled. “‘So why am I doing this.

Why don’t I do that?’”

These days, he says, Hartsko’s customers fall into three categories: start-ups that have little or no collateral, growth companies that may be profitable but can’t get enough financing from banks, and troubled companies that nonetheless have viable purchase orders.

On a recent weekday afternoon, two of Hartsko’s customers stopped at the office to meet Eitelberg and to map out financing needs in the coming year. The customers, Erik Searles and Mark Cardinale, said they had bought a children’s clothing brand called Sprockets and were hoping to sell the clothing nationwide.

Eitelberg, who had already provided Sprockets with one loan, offered to continue financing the company until it was established enough to qualify for less expensive credit.

Like several other Hartsko customers, Searles said he was grateful, despite the cost of the loans.

Instead, customers reserved their ire for the federal government and the banks, saying the billions of bailout money larded on Wall Street had done nothing to help them.

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Index funds, though Advocacy ad elevates buzz in all ads dowdy to some, get a notable endorsement

By Stuart Elliott

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For the wealthy, index funds have an image problem. They are considered the economy cars of the investing world: they’ll get you there but not in style and you’re always worried they may break down. Anyone at a serious level of wealth, the thinking goes, needs the equivalent of a luxury sedan, with strategic stock choices, hedge funds, private equity, real estate.

Burton Malkiel says this is all hogwash.

Best known for his classic investment treatise, “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” Malkiel has just published “The Elements of Investing” with Charles Ellis, an investment consultant (Wiley, 2009). The book, an unabashed homage to “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, is focused on the cleanest, simplest ways for people to invest their savings. He argues that while people of modest means are hurt by not saving regularly, wealthy people lose out by chasing the latest, greatest investment.

Malkiel, a professor of economics at Princeton University, has long advocated index funds. What’s striking now is his belief that the wealthiest would have fine returns without the volatility and high fees if they simply used indexes to diversify their money across asset classes.

“This is still a strategy that is good for people of all income levels,” he said. “If I took all the mutual funds that existed in the early 1970s and asked the question how many really beat the market through 2009, you can count them on the fingers of one hand.”

There are plenty of dissenters to this view. James Tierney Jr., a senior vice president at W.P. Stewart & Co., which has $1.6 billion invested in 15 to 20 stocks, equated indexing to judging baseball players against the league average.

“It’s like saying all hitters hit .275,” he said. “That’s not the case. Some hit .325 and some hit .200. If you find the ones with the higher average, you’re adding real value.”

The argument between advocates of the two approaches — indexing versus active managing — is an old one and will not be resolved here.

But Malkiel’s assertion that even the wealthiest investors should use indexes is intriguing. What follows are his main arguments in favor of indexing and the rebuttals from advisers who earn their livings doing the opposite.

Inactivity strategy Malkiel has long said that no one can consistently pick winning stocks and bonds.

He argues that index funds are the best, low-cost ways to invest money you will need.

“We say to people in the book, ‘Don’t try to time the market,’” he said. “It’s not that you can’t do it; it’s that you won’t do it.

The emotions will get a hold of you.”

He pushes everyone to stick instead to a balance of stocks and bonds that are right for their age and to rebalance this annually so the proportions remain the same. Yet in this sense, his advice is not so different from what strategists at wealth management firms do.

“Asset allocation is the most important decision — 90 percent of returns extend from that,” said Joseph Jennings, director of investments in Baltimore for PNC Wealth Management.

On the other hand, Tierney argued that W.P. Stewart’s concentrated approach to stock picking serves high-net-worth investors better. “We’re selecting high-quality companies with earnings streams and eliminating all the bad stocks in the S&P that you have to own because it’s an index,” he said.

Tierney pointed out that his strategy has consistently beat the Standard & Poor’s 500stock index. Since the fund’s inception in 1974, it has outperformed the S&P in its 28 positive years, 23.3 percent to 19.9 percent, and in the index’s seven down years, negative

2.9 percent versus negative 13.7 percent.

Fees Of course, all of W.P. Stewart’s returns were reported with its average management fee of 1.2 percent. And this is the area where Malkiel’s feelings are strongest.

While the old adage says you get what you pay for, Malkiel argues the opposite. “The one thing I’m absolutely sure about is the less I pay to the purveyor of the service, the more that will be left for me,” he said. “Whatever bad things happen with buying index funds, things are worse with actively managed funds.”

This makes sense for the modest investor with a straightforward portfolio. But the counterargument is that the wealthy need more advice because of the complexity of their assets, and that the advice is worth the fees. (Malkiel would say the rich just need more tax-planning advice.)

“I understand Malkiel’s argument about fees; they should not be overlooked,” Jennings said. “But there are other factors, too. What is the client trying to accomplish? What are they looking to do?”

When it comes to fees, Malkiel reserves his harshest words for those favorite pre-recession investments: hedge funds. He contends that no one — except university endowment managers — should invest in them, mainly because of their fees — typically a 2 percent management fee and 20 percent of gains. Hedge funds, he said, are “great deals for the hedge fund managers but not super deals for the investors.”

No alternatives Even Malkiel’s admirers disagree with his stance against alternative investments. They argue that wealthy, sophisticated investors are shortchanged if they do not have the ability to, say, bet against the stock of a company, as some hedge funds do.

“Being able to short stocks is a very important tool,” said Rex Macey, chief investment officer of Wilmington Trust who calls himself an admirer of Malkiel. “If you’re long only, all you can do is not hold a stock. If you have an opinion and insight into a company that is not good, you have to be able to short it.”

But Macey added, “Burton is absolutely right that you have to be careful of fees.”

Still, even if hedge funds’ fees were not so high, Malkiel has another objection to them.

“There are very few that are any good,” he said. He added that his research has shown the good hedge funds of one era are not the good ones of another.

“And if they’re good, individuals won’t get into them.”

This comes back to his argument for indexing broadly and avoiding alternative investments. “You don’t need a commodities fund if you’re really well diversified and into emerging markets,” he said. “You’re going to have some investments in Brazil, which is natural resource rich. It’s simple.”

His portfolio Unlike most advisers, Malkiel was willing to divulge his own investments. Through his best-selling books and his various board seats Malkiel, 78, is wealthy enough to have a top adviser. But he said he indexes all the money he needs for his retirement.

“My investments are broken down almost exactly as I indicated,” he said. He has put in index funds the money from his individual retirement account, his 403(b) plan — for teachers the equivalent of a 401(k) — and the fees he receives from sitting on various boards.

In addition, he said, he invests in municipal bonds. “I don’t buy a fund for that because I think I’m capable of doing that myself, but most people should buy a fund,” he said. “Beyond that, I buy a few stocks because it’s fun.”

“All the serious money,” he added, “is indexed.”

Viewers look forward to the commercials shown during a Super Bowl because they know the spots will almost always be different from — and better than — the everyday ads they typically deride or ignore. For Super Bowl XLIV today, the anticipation may be more keen than usual.

“I can’t wait to watch,” said Steve McKee, president at McKee Wallwork Cleveland, an agency in Albuquerque, N.M., that for the 10th year is sponsoring a Web site, adbowl.com, where consumers can vote for their favorite commercials. For 2010, the agency is adding an Adbowl application for the iPhone.

There are several reasons for the additional interest in the spots that CBS will broadcast today. The biggest is the inclusion of what is being called the first advocacy ad to ever appear in a Super Bowl, a commercial from Focus on the Family, an evangelical organization that is opposed to abortion.

The spot, featuring the college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, has been the subject of one of the most intense tugs-ofwar over an ad in many years.

CBS is not disclosing beforehand the contents of the commercial or when during the game it will run, but that has not stopped advocates on both sides of the abortion issue from rallying supporters for or against the spot.

For example, two organizations opposed to abortion, Americans United for Life Action and LifeNews.com, started a page on Facebook called Support Tebow’s Super Bowl Ad; as of Thursday afternoon, there were more than 168,100 fans.

Planned Parenthood, which supports abortion rights, introduced Wednesday an online commercial featuring two athletes — Sean James, who played for the Minnesota Vikings, and Al Joyner, an Olympic gold medalist — endorsing the right of a woman to make her own “deci-

Packet Continued from G1 Customers at a McDonald’s in Covington, Ky., said they would welcome a redesign.

“You use up a lot of ketchup now with the packets, I always get extra ones,” said Skyler McDermott, 29. “Maybe now you won’t have to use your teeth to open them.”

Heinz struggled for years to develop a container that lets diners dip or squeeze, and to produce it at a cost acceptable to its restaurant customers.

“The packet has long been the bane of our consumers,” said Dave Ciesinski, vice president of Heinz Ketchup. “The biggest complaint is there is no way to dip and eat it on-the-go.”

Designers found that what worked at a table didn’t work where many people use ketchup packets: in the car. So two years ago, Heinz bought a used minivan for the design team members so they could give their ideas a real road test.

The team studied what each passenger needed. The driver wanted something that could sit on the armrest. Passengers wanted the choice of squeezing or dunking. Moms everywhere wanted a packet that held enough ketchup for the meal and didn’t squirt onto clothes so easily.

Heinz is rolling out the new packs this fall at select fast-food restaurants nationwide. It will continue to sell the traditional packets.

Whether restaurants buy the new packets will depend on cost, experts say.

“One of the top uses of ketchup in this country is on french fries,” said Harry Balzer, vice president of the research firm NPD Group.

“One of the patterns of behavior in this difficult climate that continues to do OK is ordering and eating in your car.”

The company said it is still working out prices with its customers. But the new packet should cost only a little more, even though it holds much more ketchup.

Heinz is by far the biggest ketchup maker. About half of its ketchup is sold in stores and the other half is sold to the food service industry through its exclusive contracts with chains like Burger King and Wendy’s.

McDonald’s, the nation’s largest burger chain, does only limited business with Heinz.

Heinz sells more than 11 billion ketchup packets every year. But neither the ketchup maker nor the major chains would say who plans to carry the new design.

The Associated Press file photo

The “Celebrate Life” ad, featuring Florida State quarterback Tim Tebow, is not just shining the spotlight on the evangelical organization Focus on the Family, but also curiosity of what other ads Super Bowl XLIV will bring. sion about her health and her family.”

More the being silly Surveys by companies like Alterian, Nielsen and Zeta Interactive have reported that the Focus on the Family spot is the mostdiscussed of all potential Super Bowl commercials in online places like blogs and message boards. They also found extensive conversations about spots planned from other advertisers like Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Doritos, Taco Bell and Universal Pictures.

The buzz suggests “there’ll be great dialogue about the commercials” after the game as well, said Nelson Marchioli, chief executive at Denny’s, which is buying three commercials in the game compared with one during the 2009 Super Bowl.

“Last year, we got such a wonderful response, not only from customers but also from employees and franchisees,” Marchioli said. So “we wanted to plus it up” with additional spots, he added, as well as start a promotion on dennys.com to win free

breakfasts earlier than it began last year. The Denny’s spots are being created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, a unit of the Omnicom Group.

Another reason for the growing curiosity about the Super Bowl XLIV commercials is that the presence of the Focus on the Family spot is shining a brighter light on the contents of all the ads.

For instance, a decision by CBS last week that Electronic Arts change the ending of its Super Bowl spot, promoting the new Dante’s Inferno video game, drew national attention. The company and its agency, Wieden & Kennedy, wanted to end the spot with the words “Go to hell,” but CBS said the phrase did not meet its broadcast standards; the wording was changed to “Hell awaits.”

Likewise, decisions by CBS to reject commercials submitted by other advertisers were extensively covered, although such refusals are commonplace before most Super Bowls. Career Builder.com, GoDaddy.com and KGB, a text-message information service, were told some

spots they sought to run did not meet standards for broadcast; all three replaced those spots with others that were accepted.

And there were thousands of articles devoted to the refusal of CBS to accept a commercial from ManCrunch.com, a new gay dating Web site. CBS said the spot — depicting two men in a passionate clinch that resembled dirty dancing without the dancing — did not meet its broadcast standards. The network also said it was worried about the ability of the Web site to pay for the commercial.

Executives at ManCrunch. com said they had the money and called the refusal discriminatory.

Despite the interest in commercials that will not appear, advertisers say they are confident the spots they intend to run will be noticed.

“I think we’re getting our fair share of attention,” said Rudy Wilson, vice president for marketing at Frito-Lay in Plano, Texas, a division of PepsiCo. FritoLay is back with another Crash the Super Bowl contest, asking consumers to create commercials for Doritos snacks.

Three consumer-produced spots, from more than 4,000 entries, will run during the game; based on their performance in the Super Bowl Ad Meter conducted by USA Today, Frito-Lay could give away as much as $5 million in prize money. Last year, a Doritos commercial created by two brothers from Batesville, Ind., won $1 million.

The Pepsi-Cola division of PepsiCo raised eyebrows when it said it would skip Super Bowl XLIV after more than two decades of sponsorship. “I can’t really speak for Pepsi’s decision,” Wilson said, adding, “At Doritos we’re happy and excited” about returning to the Super Bowl.

“We’re the biggest, baddest, boldest chip out there, and we needed the biggest, baddest, boldest stage out there,” he added. “That platform is the Super Bowl.”

“The packet has long been the bane of our consumers.”

— Dave Ciesinski, vice president of Heinz Ketchup

Morningstar restaurant analyst R.J. Hottovy said if restaurants do adopt the design, the transition will likely be gradual.

“It has to be proven that this is something that saves money on the behalf of restaurants or cuts down on waste,” he said. “It looks interesting, but ultimately you have to provide something of value to the restaurants.”

Customers may force the issue.

Rants about the messy packs have helped spawn hundreds of anti-ketchup-packet groups on Facebook.

Matt Kurtz, a 22-year-old student in New York, has drawn 269 members to the group he started after he ripped open a packet too quickly and spilled it on his jeans while on a road trip two years ago.

“That’s when I said ‘There has to be a better way.’”

These issues come as no surprise to Heinz’s Ciesinski. “We created the packet in 1968,” he said. “Consumer complaints started around 1969.”

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+3.0 -5.2 -3.0 -15.8 -17.7 -15.1 +1.7

+19.8 +8.8 +11.8 +17.7 +33.8 -10.6 +37.9 -23.2 +38.8 -22.3 +38.3 -22.8 +47.9 -33.2 +55.5 -39.3 +55.3 -39.8 +5.9 +11.9 +38.5 +31.0 +24.6 +37.6 +28.9 +37.5 +18.6 +9.8

-16.6 -19.5 -26.6 -23.6 -23.3 -23.8 +17.5 +10.5

+39.0 +52.7 +59.0 +38.6 +11.9 +22.0 +31.4 +20.5 +6.8 +30.7 +28.0 +23.3 +35.7 +27.8 +28.9 +24.9 +37.9 +29.3 +35.5 +35.7 +38.5 +37.7 +9.4 +3.0 +33.3 +32.3 +18.9 +10.0 NA +40.4 +7.2

-15.8 -11.6 -16.6 -19.7 +17.7 -14.3 -18.8 +19.2 +13.4 -27.4 -20.6 -18.3 -10.5 -15.1 -21.5 -26.0 -23.1 -22.7 -25.3 -12.4 -13.5 -23.2 +16.1 +13.5 -20.4 -21.2 +18.4 +11.1 NA -22.7 +17.7

+15.6 +65.0 +37.7 +29.2 +26.9

+25.0 -3.0 -26.0 -13.7 -29.4

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

FF2030A p 10.39 -.12 HiIncAdvA 9.00 -.09 LevCoStA p 26.59 -.51 MidCapA p 15.33 -.16 MidCpIIA pe 13.56 -.18 NwInsghts pe 16.25 -.18 SmallCapA p 20.94 -.28 StrInA 12.13 -.06 Fidelity Advisor C: NwInsghts tne 15.59 -.18 StratIncC nt 12.11 -.05 Fidelity Advisor I: DivIntl n 13.78 -.43 EqGrI n 43.81 -.12 EqInI 20.14 -.25 GroIncI 14.40 -.13 HiIncAdvI 8.58 -.09 LgCapI n 15.35 -.12 NewInsightI e 16.40 -.18 OvrseaI 15.14 -.50 SmallCapI 21.81 -.29 StrInI 12.25 -.06 Fidelity Advisor T: DivIntlT p 13.47 -.42 EqGrT p 41.05 -.12 EqInT 19.84 -.25 GrOppT 26.22 -.11 MidCapT p 15.51 -.16 NwInsghts pe 16.10 -.18 SmlCapT p 20.31 -.27 StrInT 12.12 -.06 Fidelity Freedom: FF2000 n 11.29 -.03 FF2005 n 9.82 -.06 FF2010 n 12.20 -.09 FF2015 n 10.15 -.08 FF2015A 10.20 -.08 FF2020 n 12.13 -.11 FF2020A 10.46 -.10 FF2025 n 9.99 -.11 FF2025A 9.97 -.10 FF2030 n 11.85 -.14 FF2035 n 9.77 -.13 FF2040 n 6.82 -.09 FF2045 n 8.05 -.11 FF2050 n 7.92 -.11 IncomeFd nx 10.69 -.03 Fidelity Invest: AggrGr r 15.34 -.08 AllSectEq 11.18 -.14 AMgr50 n 13.54 -.11 AMgr70 nr 13.80 -.17 AMgr20 nrx 11.94 -.05 Balanc 15.95 -.10 BlueChipGr 35.81 -.09 CA Mun n 11.85 +.07

+33.5 +67.1 +57.1 +40.9 +36.6 +27.1 +24.8 +31.2

3 yr %rt -17.5 +3.7 -19.1 -29.4 -10.2 -11.5 -2.1 +23.6

+26.1 -13.4 +30.3 +20.9 +26.3 +26.0 +34.3 +27.1 +67.5 +53.6 +27.3 +28.1 +25.1 +31.5

-28.5 -20.6 -27.4 -22.3 +4.4 -16.1 -10.8 -23.5 -1.2 +24.4

+25.7 +25.3 +33.6 +37.7 +40.7 +26.7 +24.5 +31.1

-29.6 -21.9 -28.5 -27.4 -29.8 -12.1 -2.7 +23.5

+17.2 +24.2 +25.5 +26.5 +27.6 +29.6 +31.2 +30.4 +32.4 +31.3 +31.5 +32.3 +32.5 +33.1 +16.8

+3.9 -3.5 -3.7 -5.4 -6.3 -9.9 -11.6 -11.6 -13.1 -15.7 -16.8 -17.9 -18.2 -19.9 +5.6

+33.2 NA +29.2 +33.4 +18.8 +27.9 +42.6 +7.8

-23.1 NS -3.4 -10.8 +6.3 -8.6 -7.9 +9.9

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

IntBond 10.19 +.02 MdCpGrOp 31.82 -.45 RealEst np 13.56 -.02 First Eagle: GlobalA 38.84 -.47 OverseasA 18.99 -.27 SoGenGold p 24.55 +.37 Forum Funds: AbsolStratI r 10.48 -.03 Frank/Temp Frnk A: AdjUS p 8.98 ...

AZ TFA p 10.79 +.05 BalInv p 40.80 -.43 CAHYBd p 9.19 +.08 CalInsA p 11.95 +.08 CalTFrA px 6.96 +.02 FedInterm p 11.56 +.08 FedTxFrA px 11.78 +.01 FlexCapGrA 39.06 -.46 FlRtDA p 8.96 +.01 FL TFA p 11.45 +.03 FoundFAl p 9.43 -.18 GoldPrM A 36.02 +.42 GrowthA p 37.32 -.22 HY TFA p 9.96 +.04 HiIncoA x 1.89 -.03 IncoSerA px 2.01 -.04 InsTFA p 11.88 +.05 MichTFA p 11.96 +.05 MNInsA 12.18 +.05 MO TFA p 11.98 +.05 NJTFA p 12.00 +.05 NY TFA px 11.61 +.01 NC TFA p 12.15 +.05 OhioITFA p 12.51 +.05 ORTFA p 11.86 +.06 PA TFA p 10.26 +.04 RisDivA p 27.28 -.22 SMCpGrA 27.52 -.32 StratInc p 9.97 -.02 TotlRtnA p 9.74 +.01 USGovA px 6.71 ...

UtilitiesA p 10.58 -.19 Frank/Tmp Frnk Adv: FdTF Adv x 11.79 +.02 GlbBdAdv p ...

IncomeAdv x 2.00 -.04 TtlRtAdv 9.75 ...

USGovAdv px 6.73 ...

Frank/Temp Frnk B: IncomeB tx 2.00 -.04 Frank/Temp Frnk C: AdjUS C t 8.97 ...

CalTFC tx 6.95 +.02 FdTxFC tx 11.78 +.02 FoundFAl p 9.31 -.17

3 yr %rt

+21.8 +20.4 +33.6 -17.6 +52.6 -37.6 +25.8 +2.1 +24.7 -0.2 +25.6 +37.2 +21.2 +6.7 +3.7 +10.6 +31.8 +22.9 +7.9 +12.5 +8.2 +12.1 +29.0 +22.8 +8.9 +32.4 +53.7 +31.7 +21.0 +37.4 +34.7 +10.1 +8.1 +6.8 +10.1 +10.4 +8.7 +12.0 +6.9 +10.0 +11.1 +26.4 +35.7 +23.4 +16.8 +6.6 +5.4

+13.4 +11.6 -30.6 +2.8 +8.0 +9.7 +14.0 +12.0 -10.4 +2.9 +11.4 -20.7 +35.5 -11.9 +7.0 +14.2 -4.5 +10.9 +12.1 +14.1 +11.4 +12.7 +13.8 +12.3 +13.1 +13.8 +12.5 -21.1 -16.4 +18.8 +16.4 +20.7 -9.5

+12.3 +19.5 +35.1 +17.1 +6.7

+12.3 +41.0 -4.1 +17.3 +21.1

+33.0

-7.0

+3.3 +11.7 +11.6 +31.7

+12.0 +7.8 +10.1 -22.3

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

Bond 12.35 +.03 CapAppInst n 30.67 -.31 IntlInv t 49.30 -1.61 IntlAdmin p 49.45 -1.61 IntlGr nr 10.14 -.26 Intl nr 49.75 -1.62 Harding Loevner: EmgMkts r 39.46 -1.23 Hartford Fds A: CapAppA p 29.28 -.37 Chks&Bal p 8.51 -.06 DivGthA p 16.38 -.19 FltRateA px 8.58 +.01 GrOppty t 21.61 +.03 MidCapA p 17.25 -.12 TotRBdA px 10.32 +.01 Hartford Fds B: CapAppB pn 26.02 -.33 Hartford Fds C: CapAppC t 26.15 -.33 FltRateC tx 8.57 ...

Hartford Fds I: DivGthI n 16.33 -.19 Hartford Fds Y: CapAppY n 31.65 -.39 CapAppI n 29.22 -.36 DivGrowthY n 16.61 -.19 FltRateI x 8.59 +.01 TotRetBdY nx 10.45 +.01 Hartford HLS IA : CapApp 34.83 -.39 DiscplEqty 10.04 -.08 Div&Grwth 16.79 -.20 GrwthOpp 20.79 +.03 Advisers 17.03 -.15 Stock 34.39 -.50 Index 22.23 -.15 IntlOpp 10.14 -.29 MidCap 20.37 -.15 SmallCo 13.39 -.12 TotalRetBd 10.78 +.02 USGovSecs 10.68 +.01 Hartford HLS IB : CapApprec p 34.53 -.39 Div&Gro p 16.75 -.20 TotRet p 10.72 +.02 Heartland Fds: ValueInv 34.42 -.12 ValPlusInv p 22.68 -.10 Henderson Glbl Fds: IntlOppA p 18.63 -.55 IntlOppC p 17.68 -.52 Hotchkis & Wiley: MidCpVal 18.14 -.09 HussmnTtlRet r12.08 +.03 HussmnStrGr 12.86 +.06

+16.8 +29.5 +40.2 +40.3 +34.9 +40.7

3 yr %rt +30.0 -9.1 -14.7 -14.4 -23.2 -13.8

+60.1

-3.9

+43.8 +28.0 +25.9 +35.7 +27.8 +27.8 +14.6

-15.7 NS -14.7 +1.5 -16.5 -12.4 +12.3

+42.7 -17.7 +42.8 -17.4 +34.7 -0.8 +26.3 -13.9 +44.5 +44.3 +26.5 +36.1 +15.0

-14.5 -14.8 -13.6 +2.4 +13.6

+45.6 +24.8 +27.0 +28.1 +31.5 +42.3 +28.7 +35.7 +28.8 +27.9 +16.7 +4.7

-13.3 -20.0 -14.4 -15.9 -8.8 -20.5 -21.7 -11.4 -10.5 -20.7 +12.9 +8.4

+45.3 -14.0 +26.7 -15.0 +16.3 +12.0 +42.3 -22.3 +27.5 +0.8 +32.0 -13.7 +31.0 -15.6 +76.0 -28.1 +6.4 +27.9 +3.2 +0.6

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

LSBalance 11.49 -.08 LS Conserv 12.15 -.02 LSGrowth 11.00 -.11 LS Moder 11.60 -.05 Keeley Funds: SmCpValA p 18.69 -.23 Kinetics Funds: Paradigm 18.78 -.30 LSV ValEq n 11.74 -.12 Laudus Funds: IntlMMstrI 15.08 -.31 Lazard Instl: EmgMktI 16.81 -.50 Lazard Open: EmgMktOp p 17.06 -.51 Legg Mason A: CBAggGr p 87.64 -.49 CBAppr p 11.97 -.07 CBCapInc 11.41 -.10 CBFdValA p 11.41 -.11 CBLCGrA p 21.06 -.16 WAIntTmMu 6.41 +.03 WAMgMuA p 15.91 +.07 WANYMu A 13.58 +.05 Legg Mason B: CBAggGrB t 75.58 -.45 Legg Mason C: CBAggGrC 76.97 -.44 WAMgMuC 15.92 +.07 CMOppor t 9.26 -.25 CMSpecInv p 25.68 -.70 CMValTr p 34.94 -.44 Legg Mason Instl: CMValTr I 40.59 -.50 Legg Mason 1: CBDivStr1 14.52 -.10 Leuthold Funds: AssetAllR r 9.21 -.12 CoreInvst n 15.29 -.29 Longleaf Partners: Partners 22.98 -.12 Intl n 12.89 -.13 SmCap 20.58 -.18 Loomis Sayles: GlbBdR t 15.78 -.07 LSBondI 13.37 -.04 LSGlblBdI 15.91 -.08 StrInc C 13.88 -.05 LSBondR 13.33 -.04 StrIncA 13.81 -.05 Loomis Sayles Inv: InvGrBdA px 11.80 -.05 InvGrBdC px 11.73 -.04 InvGrBdY x 11.81 -.05 LSFxdInc 12.80 -.04 Lord Abbett A:

3 yr %rt

+33.3 -6.7 +24.7 +9.3 +34.6 -13.3 +29.5 +0.7 +27.5 -27.7 +41.5 -27.9 +32.6 -31.5 +49.0 -16.6 +69.1 +8.2 +68.5 +7.1 +28.8 +24.5 +21.8 +33.2 +32.6 +10.9 +16.3 +8.8

-26.2 -10.7 -17.7 -23.9 -13.6 +14.7 +17.7 +17.5

+27.4 -28.2 +28.0 +15.6 +91.3 +71.2 +41.8

-27.5 +15.8 -43.0 -27.4 -44.1

+43.2 -42.5 +23.9 -12.9 +26.4 -7.1 +21.0 +1.5 +45.0 -29.9 +23.0 -20.9 +50.3 -20.9 +24.1 +35.8 +24.5 +36.3 +35.5 +37.3

+21.3 +16.9 +22.4 +12.4 +15.9 +14.9

+27.5 +26.7 +28.0 +34.1

+24.6 +22.0 +25.7 +21.6

1 yr Chg %rt

3 yr %rt

EuropZ 19.33 -.48 +20.0 GblDiscovA 26.03 -.40 +19.1 GlbDiscC 25.82 -.41 +18.2 GlbDiscZ 26.33 -.41 +19.4 QuestZ 16.76 -.28 +19.2 SharesZ 18.59 -.26 +31.3 Nationwide Instl: IntIdx I n 6.53 -.19 +32.4 NwBdIdxI n 11.19 +.03 +7.8 S&P500Instl n 8.94 -.06 +28.8 Nationwide Serv: IDModAgg 7.89 -.08 NA IDMod 8.40 -.06 NA Neuberger&Berm Inv: Genesis n 25.94 -.41 +25.3 GenesInstl 35.82 -.56 +25.5 Guardn n 11.85 -.16 +27.2 Partner n 22.80 -.37 +48.7 Neuberger&Berm Tr: Genesis n 37.22 -.58 +25.2 Nicholas Group: Nichol n 39.69 +.05 +34.8 Northeast Investors: Trust 5.85 -.06 +55.5 Northern Funds: BondIdx 10.47 +.03 +7.6 EmgMkts r 10.03 -.32 NA FixIn n 10.28 +.02 +9.6 HiYFxInc n 6.92 -.06 +25.4 IntTaxEx n 10.38 +.06 +5.8 IntlEqIdx r ... +32.8 MMEmMkt r 18.42 -.57 NA MMIntlEq r 8.41 -.20 +29.9 ShIntTaxFr 10.54 +.02 +3.0 ShIntUSGv n 10.44 +.04 NA SmlCapVal n 11.69 -.21 +27.7 StockIdx n 13.20 -.09 +28.8 TxExpt n 10.60 +.07 +8.2 Nuveen Cl A: HYldMuBd p 15.27 +.09 +34.9 LtdMBA p 10.89 +.04 +5.7 Nuveen Cl C: HYMunBd t 15.25 +.08 +34.1 Nuveen Cl R: IntmDurMuBd 9.01 +.05 +9.3 HYMuniBd 15.26 +.08 +35.1 TWValOpp 29.13 +.12 +46.2 Oakmark Funds I: EqtyInc r 25.07 -.12 +19.1 GlobalI r 18.62 -.29 +41.3 Intl I r 15.85 -.43 +59.0 IntlSmCp r 11.33 -.37 +77.6 Oakmark r 35.29 -.41 +48.5 Select r 23.03 -.28 +55.8 Old Westbury Fds: GlobOpp 6.96 -.08 +20.2

-11.6 -8.0 -9.9 -7.1 -8.0 -22.7

Name

NAV

-25.1 +19.4 -21.8 NA NA -4.5 -3.8 -19.6 -23.3 -4.6 -11.2 -5.1 NS NA +17.5 +8.0 +14.3 -25.3 NS -20.4 NS NA -22.9 -21.8 +14.7 -18.1 +14.3 -19.5 +13.7 -17.7 +9.2 +8.5 -13.9 -14.4 -22.7 -13.0 -22.6 NS

Name

NAV

1 yr Chg %rt

RealRetC p 10.96 -.01 TotRtC t 10.97 +.01 PIMCO Funds D: CommodRR p 7.60 -.13 LowDurat p 10.38 ...

RealRtn p 10.96 -.01 TotlRtn p 10.97 +.01 PIMCO Funds P: TotRtnP 10.97 +.01 Parnassus Funds: EqtyInco n 23.24 -.36 Pax World: Balanced 19.54 -.09 Paydenfunds: HiInc 6.91 -.05 Perm Port Funds: Permanent 37.59 -.47 Pioneer Funds A: CullenVal 15.79 -.21 GlbHiYld p 9.74 -.01 HighYldA p 9.02 -.06 MdCpVaA p 17.46 -.13 PionFdA p 34.10 -.42 StratIncA p 10.48 ...

ValueA p 10.08 -.11 Pioneer Funds C: PioneerFdY 34.23 -.42 Pioneer Fds Y: CullenVal Y 15.84 -.21 Price Funds Adv: BlChipGr 30.60 -.28 EqtyInc 20.11 -.23 Growth pn 25.41 -.30 HiYld 6.39 -.04 R2020A p 13.99 -.14 R2030Adv np 14.35 -.17 SmCpValA 28.15 -.39 Price Funds R Cl: Ret2020R p 13.90 -.14 Price Funds: Balance n 17.03 -.14 BlueChipG n 30.58 -.29 CapApr n 17.87 -.14 DivGro n 19.64 -.22 EmMktB n 12.48 -.07 EmMktS n 27.28 -.74 EqInc n 20.16 -.22 EqIdx n 28.74 -.20 Europe n 12.80 -.55 GNM n 9.84 +.03 GloblStk n 14.94 -.34 Growth n 25.57 -.31 GwthIn n 17.08 -.21 HlthSci n 25.87 -.49 HiYld n 6.40 -.04 InstlCpGr 13.17 -.15

3 yr %rt

+17.8 +22.9 +13.8 +27.9 +31.8 -9.4 +14.0 +20.8 +18.5 +24.9 +14.9 +31.4 +15.1

NS

+27.2 +4.4 +17.6 -12.8 +24.0 +6.2 +19.3 +17.2 +22.2 +61.9 +51.6 +28.0 +25.7 +29.2 +23.2

-19.6 +8.1 +5.8 -18.2 -20.7 +24.4 -32.4

+26.3 -19.6 +22.7 -18.8 +31.4 +34.4 +29.9 +41.1 +33.1 +36.3 +31.9

-16.2 -22.2 -17.5 +14.5 -10.6 -15.0 -16.3

+32.8 -11.3 +28.1 +31.7 +32.3 +26.4 +34.2 +81.1 +34.8 +28.8 +37.1 +8.0 +39.4 +30.2 +29.3 +23.5 +41.3 +39.7

-5.9 -15.7 -2.3 -15.4 +16.9 -6.6 -21.7 -21.6 -21.9 +21.2 -28.6 -17.0 -17.8 +6.3 +15.0 -9.9

+14.2 -18.8 +29.1 -6.7 +42.8 -22.7 +33.7 -20.9 +35.4 -23.4 +23.2 +32.2 +36.4 +34.5 +11.2 +9.7

-10.9 -36.0 -10.9 +8.7 +15.1 +21.6

+29.0 -21.3 +12.1 +11.5 +8.6 +44.6 +31.6 +24.9 +34.2 +23.4 +11.4

+22.1 -25.5 -21.4 +10.3 -28.9 -14.1 +15.8

+36.6 -22.4 +35.4 -24.4 +36.9 -21.8 +35.5 -24.2 +25.5 +29.3 +12.3 +23.8 +25.6 -22.3 +26.4 -21.4 +18.9 +19.4

-8.1 -7.1

+78.2 +85.8 +44.5 +29.1 +2.8 +49.6 +34.8 +32.9 +38.8 +29.0 +40.9 +41.1 +35.2 +44.1 +42.9 +45.7 +47.2 +39.3 +96.4 +65.0 +2.2 +4.0 +4.7 +52.1 +44.9 +45.1 +11.5 +6.3 +33.0 +39.3 +42.2 +43.5 +26.5 +2.6 +52.3

+10.0 +12.9 -22.3 -20.8 +10.6 NS NS -29.0 -26.6 -20.9 -30.1 -29.9 -27.9 -24.9 -20.9 -30.1 -21.6 -22.3 +11.9 +5.0 +11.4 +16.3 +25.5 NS -25.8 -25.4 +24.2 +15.4 -21.7 -32.0 -23.8 -30.0 -21.3 +11.8 -43.8

+33.0 +57.9 +16.4 +54.3 +38.8

-16.5 NS +22.2 -19.3 -29.6

+24.0 +28.9 +7.4 +9.1 +31.3 +38.3 +28.5 +20.2 +6.8 +57.5 +11.7 +9.1 +32.9 +18.4

-17.0 -21.5 +19.6 +10.0 -19.8 -14.3 -22.2 +17.3 +13.2 -8.3 +9.0 +12.7 -20.6 +23.5

+5.8 +15.0 +28.9 -16.1 +73.9 +6.2 +38.0 +7.0 +49.6 +22.1 +21.1 ...

+4.9 +5.9 +11.4 -21.6 -5.2 +24.9

+26.8 -19.2 +21.6 -22.6 +14.6 -20.9 +20.3 -7.3 +21.2 -23.3 +38.4 +22.4 +74.2 +17.6

+5.7 -20.8 +1.7 -13.1

+24.2 -1.0 +10.7 +10.8 +23.3

-3.2

+23.2

-3.3

+15.3 +33.7 +32.7 -13.9 +40.0 -18.1 +40.3 +32.8

-1.9 -6.3

+55.3 -6.7 +3.4 +14.3 +27.1 +7.8 +46.4 +10.7 +41.2 -20.3 +15.9 +42.7 +28.2 +0.3 +2.3 +13.4

-22.8 +21.9 -15.4 +15.7 -16.8 -3.2 +9.5 +20.6

+28.2 +38.3 +1.8 +14.0 +13.6

-16.9 -14.1 +8.1 +22.5 +21.5

+26.0 -29.1 NA NA

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+40.0

-8.6

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NAV

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-6.9 -7.8 -20.2 -17.8 -15.3 -0.2 +3.8 -17.1 -7.6 -20.5

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+38.3

-9.0

+38.9

-3.7

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-14.3 +17.6 -14.1 -12.0

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NS

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-6.1

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-7.5

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-9.2 -3.1

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1 yr Chg %rt

3 yr %rt

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THE BULLETIN • Sunday, February 7, 2010 G5

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Continued from G1 “If you don’t pay attention to this, they can nail you,” said Mercer, who is telling his story as a warning to others who might also consider waiting to pay their bill. “It just piles up, and it’s just like crazy, man.”

Something unique about the irrigation district’s lien made Mercer act quickly.

Oregon state law allows water districts’ liens to jump into first position on a foreclosure, even if there are pre-existing liens on a person’s house from a bank, for example, because of a home loan. If the district is in a hurry to get its money, first position allows it to push the foreclosure process.

That works like any other judicial foreclosure. If the property owner doesn’t pay off the bill, the district can push the property to be sold at public auction. The proceeds would pay off the cost of the sale, the first lien holder and then any other lien holders, with any remaining funds going to the former owner of the property.

Christopher Hatfield, an attorney at Hurley Re in Bend who has done this work for the Central Oregon Irrigation District since 1996, said he has never seen the process lead to the public auction of a home. He said it’s not in other lien holders’ interest, such as banks, to let it go to sale, allowing the irrigation district to take the water bill and attorney fees out of the value of the home sale.

He said he has seen mortgage lenders pay off the water bill before it goes to public auction and add that cost onto the value of the home loan.

Mercer was notified that he had until Jan. 11 to pay the bill before Tumalo Irrigation’s attorney took further action, thus incurring more charges and possibly leading to foreclosure. He paid the $4,752 bill.

Mercer, who is a licensed mortgage broker, said he has maintained timely payments to his two mortgage lenders.

About eight other Tumalo Irrigation District users are in a similar spot, each having had a lien placed on his or her home during 2009. That number is high compared with typical years, when the district places liens on one or two customers’ homes, said Elmer G. McDaniels, district manager and secretary.

He said it’s a sign of the times, adding that neither he nor the district board ever wants to place liens. He said the board had lengthy discussions about

Continued from G1 While 2-year-old economic data might not seem so stale in normal times. The last two years have not been normal, economically speaking.

The census forms reached businesses during the same month the recession officially began, and the economic crisis that followed forced many firms to close.

For example, the 2007 census lists 72 furniture and home furnishing stores in Deschutes County, but seven furniture stores in Bend closed between July 2008 and June 2009, according to The Bulletin’s archives.

“We’ve definitely had contraction there,” said Roger Lee, executive director of Economic Development for Central Oregon, referring to the furniture and home furnishing sector. “That’s definitely gone down.”

The Census Bureau, created in 1902, has been collecting demographic, economic and other statistical information for more than 100 years. The U.S. Constitution requires the nation’s population to be counted every 10 years, and the first census took place in 1790, according to the agency’s Web site.

These days, however, demographic and economic information can be found elsewhere. A number of private companies sell demographic and marketing information, and other government agencies offer similar work, some of it built on census data.

The Population Research Center at Portland State University, which provides annual estimates for Oregon’s cities and counties, conducts research for school districts, fire districts, housing agencies and even golf clubs.

Researchers at the Oregon Employment Department offer some of the same information found in the economic census, and it’s even a little fresher.

County-level data from 2008 show the number of businesses in a sector, average

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Cris Mercer’s Tumalo Irrigation District bill jumped from about $800 to about $5,000 after he didn’t pay it for six months. Mercer thought he would only be charged $5 a month in late fees, but instead the irrigation district sent an attorney after him. It’s happened to multiple other people, too. Plus, they placed a lien on his house. “If you don’t pay attention to this, they can nail you,” Mercer said.

“I don’t understand “It’s not fair to the that mentality. To water users who pay me, it’s overreacting their bills to let those to a small problem. people slide. We try to Because of my work a budget that’s experience, I will argue just as bare-bones … as we can get.” with them about it.”

— Patrick Gisler, Tumalo Irrigation District water customer

— Elmer McDaniels, Tumalo Irrigation District manager and secretary

the difficulty many people are having financially. But the district’s budget suffers, potentially affecting operations and maintenance, when water bills aren’t paid, he said.

“It’s not fair to the water users who pay their bills to let those people slide,” McDaniels said.

“We try to work a budget that’s just as bare-bones … as we can get.”

McDaniels said the district, which has about 650 users, is diligent about trying to get people to pay bills before filing a lien with the county. He said the district calls and sends letters, which include information on how customers can make monthly payments to reduce the bill.

And McDaniels said the district has never foreclosed on a home after placing a lien. The Central Oregon Irrigation Dis-

trict hasn’t either, at least not since Manager Steven Johnson started working there more than six years ago.

Johnson said COID filed more liens in 2009 than previous years, adding that the process is relatively common. Although customers do incur fees when a lien is filed, COID does not have attorneys file liens like Tumalo does, which can reduce costs.

Mercer said the onus is on him for not opening his mail and knowing the consequences of not paying. But he said he never received any calls or messages from the district, nor did his family members.

Patrick Gisler, another irrigation customer, didn’t pay his bill because of a private legal dispute. He rents out his land and said the tenant wasn’t paying the water bill. He is currently trying

to settle a case with the tenant about, among other things, the bill.

But because the bill wasn’t paid, Gisler said the district placed a lien on that property, as well as his personal residence, which also receives service from Tumalo Irrigation. Gisler said his bill is up to date at his personal residence and believes that the district placed two liens because he owns both properties.

Gisler is more upset by the attorney’s fees, believing they are too high. The irrigation district’s attorney is charging about $3,000 in addition to the unpaid water bill, Gisler said.

“I don’t understand that mentality. To me, it’s overreacting to a small problem,” he said. “Because of my experience, I will argue with them about it.”

Others who have had similarly sized legal fees tacked onto their bills also are planning to fight the additional charges.

Mercer decided not to fight the fees, believing a legal dispute would end up costing him more in the long run. His main qualm is that the situation escalated so fast, turning a $740 bill into $4,700 within a few months and nearly costing him his home.

What’s worse is that the economy is bad, Mercer said.

“It’s just so tough right now,” he said. “And then crap like this happens.”

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EVERETT, Wash. — The Boeing Co. has launched a new Web site to help aviation buffs keep track of 787 flight tests, including a recently completed engine stall test.

Last week Boeing introduced 787flighttest.com, which will keep fans of the new fuel-efficient Dreamliner updated. The 787, which made its first flight Dec. 15, has drawn tremendous attention both from airlines and airplane enthusiasts. Aviation buffs can keep up with the Dreamliner as test aircraft move through a variety of exercises meant to prove to federal aviation authorities that it’s safe for commercial flight.

One of those exercises, called stall testing, requires 787 pilots to intentionally reduce power to both engines and then recover

normal flight speeds. Boeing said the purpose of the test is to show that pilots could recover should the rare event of a stall occur during commercial flight. A stall is defined as flying so slowly that the airplane is no longer generating lift.

Boeing’s recent 787 stall testing went “very well and there were no surprises,” said Mike Carriker, 787 chief pilot.

Boeing has two 787 test aircraft in flight testing. The third and fourth are expected to take their first flights next month.

The new Web site helps aviation buffs keep track of how many flights and how many hours each aircraft has made.

It details the type of tests each of the six aircraft has been designated to perform. Boeing will add features, such as an interview with 787 chief pilot Carriker, and new photos to the Web

site as those come available.

If flight testing goes smoothly, Boeing hopes to deliver its first 787 jet to Japan’s All Nippon Airways late this year, more than two years late. Boeing has 851 orders for its Dreamliner, which consists largely of lightweight carbon fiber composite materials.

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But even the Employment Department uses the federal census data for business sales figures, which can be hard to find from other sources, said Tim Duy, director of the Oregon Economic Forum at the University of Oregon Economics Department.

Along with the business sales data, Duy, who conducts statewide economic analysis and produces the Central Oregon Business Index for The Bulletin, said the economic census data have other value.

It would be good for cross-sectional analysis, which generally focuses on a piece of information or data at a specific point in time, and the depth of information offered by census data makes it the gold standard, he said.

“It’s a deep data set, and that’s excellent for cross-sectional (analysis),” he said.

In the future, he said, a comparison of economic census data from 2007 and 2012 also could help show how well businesses have recovered from the current economic crisis.

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A Porsche fan’s starter car

By Jason H. Harper Bloomberg News

What’s so special about the Volkswagen GTI? A gussied-up Golf with a special grille on its pug nose, this squat squirt certainly is no Maserati.

Yet among certain car cognoscenti, the spirited, sprightly hatchback is R E V I E W a hallowed thing.

The sixth-generation GTI recently won Automobile magazine’s Car of the Year.

The bare facts: It starts under $25,000 and has a scrappy 2.0-liter turbo four-cylinder engine with 200 horsepower and 207 pound-feet of torque. That’s much peppier than the Golf, but is pretty pale in this era of 500plus-horsepower powerplants.

So what gives?

“The GTI has a direct bloodline to Audis and Porsches,” said Brian Scotto, editorial director of 0-60 magazine and a GTI devotee. “It’s an aspirational vehicle.

The guy who wants to grow up and drive a Porsche will probably drive a VW first. It’s the least expensive German sports car you can buy.”

First released in the United States in the early 1980s, today the GTI is based on the $18,000 Golf (some versions of which were named the Rabbit in the U.S.), and is available with two or four doors, plus the rear hatch opening. The four-door model only costs an additional $600, though the two-door version looks cleaner.

My test car was a two-door model with an optional sunroof, Xenon headlights and a $27,255 sticker.

While the GTI may have created the segment of economical rockets, the front-wheel-drive hatch has stiff competition from the likes of the Subaru WRX and Mitsubishi Evolution. A similarly equipped WRX Premium has all-wheel-drive and more power (265 hp), yet costs only about $1,000 more.

Youth on wheels With temperatures hovering around freezing and forest roads flecked with snow, my buddy Josh and I stepped into a steelgray GTI to find out just what was what. Not having grown up slavering over the car, my vision was maybe a bit clearer than that of some colleagues.

Josh settled into the passenger seat as we set out onto a network of secondary roads. “Nice sport seats,” he commented. They were. My frame was slightly big for them, but they were clingy — just right for keeping you in place during hard cornering. I was somewhat less sure of their plaid pattern.

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The 2010 Volkswagen GTI rounds a hairpin turn. VW has been building GTIs since the early 1980s and the sixth-generation model won Automobile magazine’s Car of the Year award.

2010 Volkswagen GTI Price as tested: $27,255 Type: Six-speed manual or automated double clutch Engine: 2.0-liter turbo 4-cylinder with 200 horsepower and 207 pound feet of torque Mileage: 21 mpg city, 31 mpg highway I did like the eye-catching cross-stitching which ran along the inside of the perfectly sized steering wheel and down the leather covering of the six-speed stick shift.

Yes, it had a manual transmission, a feature disappearing on cars more quickly than bluefin tuna from the oceans. From Ferraris to Fords, everything I drive these days seems to be equipped with some type of automated transmission.

Yet while a six-speed, automated double-clutch is available, the manual seemed perfect for the small 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. Gear shifts were smooth and, most importantly, fun.

In fact as I swept through a series of off-camber S-turns, I was enjoying myself a lot.

“For a change, it feels really smooth,” said Josh, giving no clue as to whether he was commenting on the suspension or my normal driving style.

The suspension wasn’t spinejarringly stiff like many small sports cars such as the Mini Cooper S with the John Cooper Works package. Yet the nose eas-

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ily tucked into turns upon request, like a happy-to-please puppy.

“Smooth is fast,” goes a common racing mantra, and my speeds began to pick up. A series of short undulating hills, a carnival ride, big smiles.

The biggest problem with front-wheel-drive sports cars is understeer. That is the tendency for the front wheels to lose traction in curves and bends, forcing the car to plow forward rather than turning. The effect is especially pronounced in turns with tight radiuses or when you enter a turn carrying too much speed.

To help counteract the problem, the GTI lightly brakes the inside wheels in a turn, effectively coaxing it to turn in, and reducing understeer.

I might not have been consciously aware of this electronic intervention, but as I dove into sharp twists fast and late, I certainly noticed that the GTI behaved better than most frontwheel drives.

Brakes were sturdy, but I rarely needed them. Power on, shift up; take foot of gas, shift down, turn; power back on. This is uncomplicated motoring fun.

The fact is that you can’t use all the horsepower in a Corvette or Viper on tight roads anyhow.

While I would have been cursing the GTI on the autobahn, on rising and winding lanes its 200 horsepower is plenty.

The rear hatch lends the GTI some practicality, the interior has Bluetooth connectivity, power locks and windows and a nice stereo, and it has a full complement of safety features from side airbags

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And yet there’s still something about the GTI which is not quite grown up. With its wedge shape, red-striped front grill and rear spoiler, it retains more than a hint of its boy-racer roots.

Whether you regard that as its greatest asset or liability depends on age — both actual and mental. For me, I might not be a devotee, but I finally understood the appeal.

The bottom line Best feature: Supple yet sporty suspension.

Worst feature: It looks like a boy’s toy.

Target buyer: The enthusiast looking for an entry-level German sports car.

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A few weeks ago, a flange on my exhaust pipe gave way and dropped the pipe onto the pavement. The pipe is in good shape, so I would like to preserve it for as long as I can on my 1996 Infiniti G20 with 206,000 miles. I bought some self-tapping sheet metal screws and metal strapping. In my haste, I screwed this into my gas tank.

I don’t think the tank is leaking, but I now need two do-ityourself solutions. My thought on the tank is to “prep” a second

Stop-leak products may not be a complete or permanent fix, but they’re worth a try. screw with some kind of sealer and then do a quick change — unscrew and re-screw in about 10 seconds.

What do you recommend for sealant? What about the exhaust pipe? It’s loud, and the flange is rusted to the other half of the exhaust pipe, but no other damage has been done.

If the tank’s not leaking, why do anything until it does? But if necessary — and with all due care — coat a replacement screw with a gas/ fuel tank stop-leak product like Permatex 12020, a putty-like two-part epoxy. This product, according to its spec sheet, does not require draining the tank.

Obviously, the risk is gasoline leaking during the swap, so I’d suggest trying to run the vehicle virtually out of gas, then place jack stands safely under the side of the vehicle closest to the screw. You may be able to tilt the near-empty tank enough to keep gas away from the hole during the repair. Good luck — and be very, very careful.

Regarding the exhaust pipe, check with a muffler/exhaust shop to see if it can be repaired economically.

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Paul Brand, author of “How to Repair Your Car,” is an automotive troubleshooter, driving instructor and former race car driver. E-mail questions to paulbrand@startribune.com.

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