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Officials considering shuttle bus system

‘Suddenly, here am I, I’m flying’

Former 911 dispatch director will assume part-time post June 1

By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin

In popular national parks like Glacier and Zion, shuttles take visitors to and from recreation sites. And now the Deschutes National Forest is planning to take a look at whether a shuttle system or another form of public transportation could work to ferry people from Bend to the area’s popular recreation sites. With a $367,000 Federal Transit Administration grant announced Wednesday, the Deschutes National Forest will do a feasibility study to look at where people are going, whether visitors would use a shuttle system, what its cost would be and more. “Our forest supervisor’s vision is that a 12-year-old kid could get on a shuttle, ride the bus to Elk Lake, fish all day, and ride the bus home,” said Peggy Fisher, the forest’s transportation program manager. Or, she added, a retired couple that didn’t want to drive could instead catch a ride up to a mountain lake. “The intent is just to see if our community is ripe for that kind of service,” she said. The grant, called the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks Program, is designed to both look at ways to shrink the number of cars and their carbon footprint, but also to help people who can’t or don’t want to drive to get to national forests, national parks and other public land. “The whole purpose is to look for ways to reduce the actual vehicles on the road, and reduce the need to build bigger, more expensive parking lots,” Fisher said, adding that it could look at new bike trails as well. The feasibility study, slated to start this fall, would look at the economics of public transportation system, and whether the Deschutes National Forest would partner with another organization to provide the actual shuttles. See Shuttle / A4

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McDonald reassigned to lower position By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

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Johnny Pickett, left, a flight director from Las Vegas-based company Flying by Foy, steadies Billy Brant, 13, who will play Peter Pan in a Redmond High School production, as he is lifted off the stage during the first night of flying practice Wednesday evening at the high school. More than 30 students from seven area schools are participating in the musical, which opens May 18 and continues through May 22, with performances at 7 p.m. each night and a 1:30 p.m. matinee May 22. Tickets are $10 in advance, and are available at the Redmond High School main office, at 675 S.W. Rimrock Way.

Deschutes County Commissioners on Wednesday rejected the local 911 district’s decision to fire its director, and voted to sign a deal for her to work part time in a lower ranked job. The 911 district’s board placed former Deschutes County 911 “When we Director Becky Mc- balance the Donald on leave in December, then spent valuable public thousands of dollars service Ms. to hire an interim director and investigate McDonald has McDonald. provided over an In April, the 911 district’s board, com- extensive period posed of local fire and of time against police chiefs, voted to her recent fire McDonald for allegedly lying about de- mistakes which tails of her relationship form the basis of with a dispatcher’s estranged husband. Mc- the (911 board’s) Donald appealed their decision, we decision to the County believe that these Commission. Under a separation events do not agreement the County Commission approved warrant her being Wednesday, McDon- permanently ald agreed not to sue deprived of her the 911 district and resigned from her for- certification.” mer job as director. In return, McDonald will — Letter to the Board be placed in a part-time on Public Safety job at the county’s Pa- Standards and Training role & Probation De- from Deschutes County partment analyzing Commissioners budgets and performance data, and auditing the department’s compliance with its policies and procedures. The job was offered to McDonald during negotiations earlier this year, but last week county officials said it was no longer available. McDonald will begin the part-time job June 1, and will earn about $28 an hour and receive health insurance benefits at the level of a full-time employee. See 911 / A4

Fetal alcohol spectrum Suspected impostor ‘played disorder plagues courts the part good,’ says student stolen goods. “He’d say, ‘Mom, I did it beMcClatchy-Tribune News Service cause they are my friends,’” CHICAGO — As long as his said Kathy Link, recalling one mom could remember, Mat- grim night at a police station thew Link was in 2006. “After impulsive, makhe’d get caught, ing bad choices “Unless we do he would always and not under- a better job of be sorry ... but standing right the lessons never from wrong. He educating court stuck.” required constant professionals ... Adopted as an supervision and infant, her son would tell “off- and modify our has been diagthe-wall” stories strategies, this nosed with fetal that made him alcohol spectrum look tough and population is disorders, or powerful. always going to FASD — an umAs the Carbrella term for fail.” pentersville, Ill., the birth defects boy got older, — Kathryn Kelly, caused by alcothe small prob- FASD Legal Issues hol use during lems grew bigger. pregnancy. Resource Center Link’s cognitive He is now deficits made him 23, and while an easy mark for the “wrong he looks like everyone else, crowd,” who could talk him his maturity is closer to into anything — including mid-adolescence. See FASD / A5 shoplifting and transporting

By Bonnie Miller Rubin and Margaret Ramirez

By Betsy Blaney and Schuyler Dixon The Associated Press

ODESSA, Texas — A lot of guys dream about going back to high school and recapturing their athletic glory days. A man who went by the name of Jerry Joseph did it, police say, and now he’s in big trouble. Authorities say the boyishlooking 22-year-old posed as a 16-year-old sophomore phenom to lead the Permian High School basketball team to the state playoffs. He was jailed on fraud charges, and the rabidly competitive West Texas high school that inspired the movie “Friday Night Lights” may have to forfeit its season. “Everyone just thought he was a big guy,” said Permian senior football player Steven Pipes. “He played the part good, skipping down the hallways acting goofy like a 16-year-old.” Pipes and some teammates

The Associated Press

West Texas student Jerry Joseph, who led his high school basketball team to the state playoffs last season, is actually 22-year-old Guerdwich Montimere, police said Tuesday. approached the 6-foot-5 player they knew as Joseph soon after he enrolled last year, asking him if he wanted to play foot-

ball. Pipes said Joseph, who was attending a junior high at the time, declined. He liked basketball instead, and he was good enough to average about 20 points per game over the final nine games heading into the playoffs, where Permian lost in the first round. Joseph was a starter and played center and forward. But suspicions about the player’s identity first arose when three Florida basketball coaches familiar with a former player named Guerdwich Montimere recognized him last month at an amateur tournament in Little Rock, Ark. Montimere, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti, graduated from Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale in 2007. School officials and immigration authorities initially believed Joseph when he denied the allegations and let him remain enrolled. See Imposter / A5


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