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Prineville city officials are hoping to model the city’s wetlands after La Grande’s Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area, pictured above. La Grande created the wetlands to treat the city’s wastewater.

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What will District 59 bring in ’10? It’s surprised in the past By Nick Budnick The Bulletin

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For decades, shoppers have taken advantage of coupons. Now, the coupons are taking advantage of the shoppers. A new breed of coupon, printed from the Internet or sent to

mobile phones, is packed with information about the customer who uses it. While the coupons look standard, their bar codes can be loaded with a startling amount of data, including identification about the customer, Internet address, Facebook page

information and even the search terms the customer used to find the coupon in the first place. And all that information follows that customer into the mall. For example, if a man walks into a Filene’s Basement to buy a suit for his wedding and

shows a coupon he retrieved online, the company’s marketing agency can figure out whether he used the search terms “Hugo Boss suit” or “discount wedding clothes” to research his purchase (just don’t tell his fiancee). See Coupons / A7

A giant, speeding rock: our next space target By Seth Borenstein

Landing on the surface of an asteroid, even one as large as the Eros, at right, will involve far greater risks than traveling to the moon. The crater visible on Eros measures 4 miles across.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Landing a man on the moon was a towering achievement. Now the president has given NASA an even harder job, one with a certain Hollywood quality: sending astronauts to an asteroid, a giant speeding rock, just 15 years from now. Space experts say such a voy-

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SALEM — Local political junkies have to be wondering what sort of election 2010 will bring for Oregon House District 59, a sprawling area that extends across much of Central and Eastern Oregon. Inside In a No• Meet the vember 2006 House shocker, a District 59 Democrat and candidates, hay farmer Page A7 named Jim G i l b e r t s o n , • Whisnant running a lowwill face one budget camchallenger paign, came for District within 300 53 seat, votes of oustPage C1 ing the thenincumbent, Republican John Dallum of The Dalles. Two years later, after Dallum moved away mid-term, the man appointed to replace him, John Huffman, crushed a different Democratic opponent by more than 4,000 votes, garnering 59 percent of the vote. This year, Huffman faces an opponent in the May 18 primary as well as — if he wins the Republican nomination — another opponent in the November general election. His Republican opponent is Britt Storkson, a business owner in The Dalles, who says Huffman is too liberal. However, Storkson does not intend to raise money or run much of a campaign, and his critique of Huffman lacks specifics. “I haven’t examined his voting record,” Storkson said, adding that “I don’t want to run this like a machine candidate. I don’t want to be a run-of-the-mill Joe. I think people can relate to that.” See District 59 / A7

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PRINEVILLE — City officials envision a destination — a place that people from around the region, maybe even the state, would travel to see. A place where bird watchers would bring binoculars and students would visit on field trips. There would be cattails, eye-catching habitat and walking trails. And it would also treat the city’s wastewater. It’s relatively new idea, said City Engineer Eric Klann, and it’s one he thinks would benefit both the community and the environment. See Prineville / A6

Sales staff and customers browse rows of camping trailers as seen through the window of an RV on Friday at the Central Oregon RV Show at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center in Redmond. New and used boats and RVs will be on display through Sunday, and admission is free.

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The city of Prineville hopes to create a scenic wetland, complete with bridges, restrooms and sidewalks.

Efforts to purchase Skyline Forest west of Bend got a $2.5 million boost Friday, as the Deschutes Land Trust received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Legacy Program. “It’s essentially one more step along the long road to acquire Skyline Forest,” said Brad Chalfant, executive director of the land trust, a Bend-based nonprofit. The 50-square-mile forest parcel, at the foothills of the Three Sisters, is currently owned by Fidelity National Timber Resources. Last summer, the Legislature passed a bill allowing the company to develop a corner of the forest, if it sells the rest of the property to the land trust to manage as a community forest. This is the second Forest Legacy Program grant the land trust has received, bringing its total grant money to $4 million. But that’s still only about a quarter of the funds the nonprofit hopes to raise, Chalfant said. Additional funds could come from private fundraising and Community Forest Authority bonds, which would be repaid through sustainable timber projects. Fidelity could develop a plan for the parcel and its sale in the next year or so, Chalfant said. “In the meantime, we’ve got an awful lot to do,” he said. — Kate Ramsayer, The Bulletin

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do something that has been accomplished only in the movies by a few square-jawed, squintyeyed heroes: saving the Earth from a collision with a killer asteroid. “You could be saving humankind. That’s worthy, isn’t it?” said Bill Nye, TV’s Science Guy and vice president of the Planetary Society. See Asteroid / A7

age could take several months longer than a journey to the moon and entail far greater dangers. “It is really the hardest thing we can do,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. Going to an asteroid could provide vital training for an eventual mission to Mars. It might help unlock the secrets of how our solar system formed. And it could give mankind the know-how to