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34th edition of Centr Race preview • Satural Oregon’s signature race day, May 15
More than 3,000 racers are expected to compete — as individuals or as members of teams — urday’s 34th annual in SatU.S. The multisport race is Bank Pole Pedal Paddle. made up of six stages:
1. ALPINE SKIING
A 200-foot uphill sprint snowboards, and a race through snow to skis and the Leeway Run at Mt. down a gated course on Bachelor ski area.
2. NORDIC SKIING
An eight-kilometer loop along the Mt. Bachelor Nordic Center trails, first ing lot and then finishing skirting the Bachelor parkat the Nordic Center. skating and classic techniques Both are allowed.
3. CYCLING
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A 22-mile mostly downhill Drive from Mount Bachelor ride along Century to Colorado Avenue Bend. in
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4. RUNNING A five-mile run along Century Drive and the chutes River Trail to Desthe river from Farewell Bendboat exchange across the Park.
5. PADDLING A 1½-mile paddle in a kayak or canoe (or PPP-approved watercraft) other including upstream and on the Deschutes River, year, the boat launch downstream sections. This and boat takeout are on the same beach.
6. SPRINTING A half-mile run from the a paved path and grass paddle finish along to the finish at the Les Schwab Amphitheat er.
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DA candidates debate politics Ballot returns lagging By Erin Golden The Bulletin
Mike Dugan
Deschutes County District Attorney Mike Dugan, who is seeking a seventh term in office, believes that advocating for political issues is an important part of serving as the county’s top prosecutor. His challenger, Patrick Flaherty, says the district attorney should avoid political activism in almost all cases. With just under a week to go before Elec-
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tion Day, the candidates’ sharp difference in opinion over the role of politics in the district attorney’s office has become one of the top issues in a sometimes-contentious race. While both candidates say the district attorney has
a duty to represent residents’ interests in matters of public safety and justice, they disagree on how best to achieve that goal. Flaherty, who once served under Dugan as a chief deputy district attorney and currently practices law with the Bend firm of Wright, Van Handel & Flaherty, has frequently expressed concerns about Dugan’s vocal support for two tax measures passed by voters earlier this year. See DA race / A5
By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
Things are about to get hairy
Ballot returns are lagging across the state with the Tuesday primary election now less than a week away, but county clerks say there’s still time for voter turnout to reach normal levels. As of Tuesday evening, 17 percent of voters in Deschutes County had returned their ballots, compared to 24.9 percent in Jefferson County and 21.7 percent in Crook County. Statewide, just 12 percent of voters had returned their ballots as of the end of the day Monday, the most recent date for which statewide figures are available. Secretary of State Kate Brown predicted a statewide final turnout of 37 percent, which would be the lowest turnout in a statewide election in the last 10 years.
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Governor’s race The upcoming election will choose Democratic and Republican nominees for the Oregon governor’s race, the Republican that will challenge Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Portland, in the fall, and nominees for a host of county-level contests and state legislative races. See Turnout / A5
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Kristin Kerner, left, discusses a poster for the Beard Team USA National Beard & Moustache Championships with Peter Aune, founder of the Central Oregon Moustache & Beard Society (COMBS), during the group’s meeting at 10 Barrel Brewpub in Bend. Although Kerner isn’t planning to enter the facial hair competition — the moustache she’s wearing is a fake — that’s being held June 5 in Bend, she is a member of COMBS and plans to support Aune and other competing members. For the full story, see Business, Page B1.
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Doubt cast on many food allergies By Gina Kolata New York Times News Service
Corrections In a story headlined “Deschutes tries to save as it plans its budget,” which appeared Tuesday, May 11, on Page A1, the percentage by which the sheriff’s contingency fund is larger than required under Deschutes County policy was reported incorrectly. The fund is 55 percent larger than required. In a photo caption that accompanied a story headlined “Water worries,” which appeared Monday, May 10, on Page A1, the name of Mount McLoughlin, near Klamath Lake, was misspelled. The Bulletin regrets the errors.
Many who think they have food allergies actually do not. A new report, commissioned by the federal government, finds the field is rife with poorly done studies, misdiagnoses and tests that can give misleading results. While there is no doubt that people can be allergic to certain foods, with reproducible responses ranging from a rash to a severe life-threatening reaction, the true incidence of food allergies is only about 8 percent for children and less than 5 percent for
adults, said Dr. Marc Riedl, an author of the new paper and an allergist and immunologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Yet about 30 percent of the population believe they have food allergies. And, Riedl said, about half the patients coming to his clinic because they had been told they had a food allergy did not really have one. Riedl does not dismiss the seriousness of some people’s responses to foods. But, he says, “That accounts for a small percentage of what people term ‘food allergies.’” Even people who had food aller-
gies as children may not have them as adults. People often shed allergies, though no one knows why. And sometimes people develop food allergies as adults, again for unknown reasons. For their report, Riedl and his colleagues reviewed all the papers they could find on food allergies published between January 1988 and September 2009 — more than 12,000 articles. In the end, only 72 met their criteria, which included having sufficient data for analysis and using more rigorous tests for allergic responses. See Allergies / A5
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‘Heist of the century’ trial opens in France By Siegfried Mortkowitz McClatchy-Tribune News Service
PARIS — The trial of the armoredcar driver who has confessed to pulling off what was described by fans as “the heist of the century” opened Tuesday in the French city of Lyon. Tony Musulin has admitted driving off with 11.6 million euros (about
$15 million) in cash on Nov. 5, 2009, while the two guards accompanying the shipment left the vehicle to collect more money from a bank. Two days after the robbery, 9.1 million euros of the loot was found in a rental car parked in a garage near Lyon. The rest of the money has not been recovered, and Musulin has re-
fused to divulge what he might have done with it. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison. Musulin also faces up to five years in prison for allegedly trying to defraud an insurance company by declaring that his Ferrari was stolen. See Heist / A5
Ballots must be returned by 8 p.m. Tuesday. Postmarks do not count. Voters may mail their ballots or take them to drop-off locations, listed online at the following sites: Deschutes County: www.co.deschutes.or.us/go/ government/departments/ county-clerk/elections/currentelection/index.cfm Anyone registered to vote in Deschutes County who has not received a ballot should contact the county clerk’s office at 541388-6547. Jefferson County: www .co.jefferson.or.us/ ElectedOfficials/CountyClerk/ Elections/tabid/1421/Default.aspx Anyone registered to vote in Jefferson County who has not received a ballot should contact the county clerk’s office at 541447-6553. Crook County: http:// co.crook.or.us/Departments/ CountyClerk/BallotDropSites/ tabid/1031/Default.aspx Anyone registered to vote in Crook County who has not received a ballot should contact the county clerk’s office at 541475-4451. So far, the following percentages of registered voters have returned their ballots: Deschutes County:
17 percent Crook County:
21.7 percent Jefferson County:
24.9 percent