Bulletin Daily Paper 04/20/10

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Primary likely will decide who speaks for District 55 in Legislature

WALLS RISE at new high school in Redmond

By Nick Budnick The Bulletin

SALEM — For voters who care about the outcome of the race for state House District 55, the election will essentially be over in May, not November. Republicans enjoy a commanding majority in the sprawling area Inside that includes • More on the Crook and candidates, Lake counties, Page A4 as well as portions of Deschutes, Jackson and Klamath. They make up 46 percent of the district’s 35,264 voters, compared to just 29 percent for Democrats. In fact, no Democrats bothered to file for the seat this year, continuing a trend that started three elections ago, in 2004. In the Republican primary, lawyer Mike McLane, of Powell Butte, is taking on Prineville mayor Mike Wendel. See District 55 / A4

PRG recently closed; Bend police are investigating following owner’s disclosure of $150K embezzlement By Andrew Moore

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Gamble, luck in saving teen shot in chest By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — He felt like he was suffocating, struggling to breathe despite the bullet hole in his chest. Shot in the aorta — near where the body’s biggest artery leaves the heart — somehow 16-year-old Dimitrios Philliou didn’t bleed to death before the ambulance screeched up to the hospital. So doctors took a gamble: Could they save him, not with huge open surgery that itself can kill, but with a patch snaked inside his torn-up aorta? See Shot / A5

TOP NEWS INSIDE IRAQ: Vote recount OK’d; top al-Qaida leaders reported killed, Page A3

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ne of the largest cranes in the Northwest lifts a wall panel into place Monday at the new high school in southwest Redmond. The wall panels weigh up to 183,000 pounds, with the largest measuring 58 feet tall. But that’s hardly a challenge for the crane, which can extend to 200 feet and lift 500 tons — or about 1.1 million pounds. Over about three weeks this spring, the

crane will install 172 wall panels, according to a news release from the Redmond School District. The school district is building the new school, which is set to open in fall 2012, with money from the $110 million bond voters passed in 2008. Once the walls are in place, construction crews will begin installing steel support beams and the roof. — Patrick Cliff, The Bulletin

The investigation into PRG Property Management has expanded, with the Bend Police Department saying more than 50 victims could be ensnared in what it believes may be a case of aggravated theft. In addition, several victims have contacted The Bulletin saying they have lost thousands of dollars in the wake of PRG’s abrupt closure April 9 by its owner, Elizabeth J. Rose. Attempts to contact Rose have been unsuccessful. She has not been arrested or charged with any crime. In September, Rose confessed to embezzling $150,000 from the company to investigators with the Oregon Real Estate Agency, according to an Oct. 5 investigative report issued by the agency. The report states Rose told investigators she put the money “back into the company” in order to pay workers and taxes. Agency investigators notified the Bend Police Department the same day of the confession, but the department did not open an investigation into the matter until April 12. The department maintains it couldn’t open an investigation until a victim had been identified, and it was relying on the agency to find one. The report also states Rose’s husband, Gary Rose, was a retired Deschutes County Sheriff’s deputy and that Bend Police Sgt. Brian Kindel, who learned of the confession from the agency, knew Gary Rose. See Property / A4

WORK AND THE RECESSION

David Walter Banks / New York Times News Service

Michael Sinclair is contracted by the marketing department of a health care manufacturing company. “I think it’s far less risky than being in a full-time job somewhere and cut at will and left with nothing,” he says.

Once reluctant, many now embrace part-time jobs New York Times News Service

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NORCROSS, Ga. — Michael Sinclair knows that in a few months, his stint in the marketing department of a health care manufacturing company north of Atlanta is set to end. He has been with the company for only six months, but he is not dismayed. In fact, he actually prefers his life as an independent contractor — constantly being laid off and rehired, sometimes juggling multiple jobs — to his old corporate position. “I think it’s far less risky than being in a fulltime job somewhere and cut at will and left with nothing,” Sinclair said. “I see this as the way more people will work in the future.” Economists believe that Sinclair’s situation has become increasingly common. What is known as “contingent work,” or “flexible” and “alternative” staffing arrangements, has proliferated, although exact figures are hard to come by. Many people are apparently looking at multiple temporary jobs as the equivalent of a diversified investment portfolio. See Contractors / A5


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