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Unsightly power pole could be relocated by summer
Downtown’s new
Effective June 4:
750 feet The minimum distance a
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car must be moved every two hours to avoid a parking ticket, up from 500 feet.
By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin
The 70-foot, cactus-shaped power pole along the Cascade Lakes Highway in southwest Bend should be moved to a less visible location this summer, according to U.S. Forest Service officials. Plans to relocate the Midstate Electric Cooperative pole, which was installed in 2007 near the Tetherow destination resort, have been previously proposed in both 2008 and 2009. But now officials say a deal to fund the project is close to completed, and the work should occur this year. “Hopefully we’ll get all the contract stuff done before June’s over, and we’re moving that pole later in the summer,” said John Allen, Deschutes National Forest supervisor. “The intent is to move it about 600 to 700 feet to the south, down in a little swale there. It won’t be as visible to the traveling public.” See Pole / A6
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Matt Gibson, 25, who works for Diamond Parking, records the license plate number of each vehicle parked on his route in downtown Bend.
law, come down to a matter of inches. The trick is, the city’s enforcement agents issue those tickets without knowing the exact
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make their best guess. equipped to measure distance. “There is no GPS,” Clifford said. “They do it by the spots — that’s all they have to go by. There is no way to determine the number of feet exactly.” More important than whether a car had moved 495 feet or 510 feet, Clifford said, was the “spirit of the code,” which he said was “to keep (business owners and employees) from not just taking multiple customer spots.” Jeff Datwyler, the city’s downtown manager, agreed. “The ‘move to evade’ code is there to help protect customer parking so that it remains available to be used by customers and not abused by employees and business owners.” See Parking / A7
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Currently, any car parked in a spot marked free for two hours must move farther than 500 feet from its original spot when the two hours are up. On April 21, the City Council voted to change that to 750 feet. The new rule will go into effect June 4. A car moved less than the regulated distance risks getting a $32 “move to evade” ticket placed on its windshield. Todd Clifford, the Bend manager for Diamond Parking, which enforces downtown parking, said agents “don’t have exact measurements” when issuing tickets. Though the agents’ hand-held computers do record both the original and the second parking spots a moved car has occupied, the computers are not
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Installed in 2007, a 70-foot-tall power pole along the Cascade Lakes Highway is set to be moved several hundred feet south, to a less visible area.
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One of the regulations for parking in downtown Bend can, by
The City Council is increasing the minimum distance – from 500 to 750 feet – a car must be moved every two hours to avoid being fined for moving to evade the overtime parking ordinance. This is a compromise to the recently proposed 1,000-foot distance. The red circles show the estimated distance a car would have to be moved. The new 750-foot limit goes into effect June 4.
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Immigrants find old careers don’t transfer to new lives By Bill Reiter McClatchy-Tribune News Service
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When the news came, Charles Migwi Karugu had a vision of how life would be different once he arrived in America. He would build gleaming, beautiful buildings. He would find wealth and opportunity. He would turn his good luck and sterling education into the American Dream. So in 2004, after winning the green card lottery, the 52-year-
old Kenyan architect packed up his family and headed to Wichita, Kan. “I came just to get to greener pastures,” he said. What he found instead was a promising land with a hitch he hadn’t expected: Educated or not, qualified or not, he was not able to practice his profession. “In every country, you have to be licensed,” he said. “My goal is to be able to get my license and build buildings again.” See Immigrants / A4
John Gak has been a table games dealer at a Kansas City casino since 1997. In his native Sudan, Gak studied engineering and worked for multinational oil companies. Kansas City Star
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4, including baby, held at knifepoint on west side By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
A man suspected of breaking into his wife’s Bend apartment and holding four people at knifepoint for several hours was taken into custody Saturday afternoon and likely will face multiple charges. Kristen Snow White, 19, of Bend, called 911 at 10:40 a.m. and reported that her estranged husband, Caleb Goodpasture, 19, had forced his way into her apartment at the Officers Quarters complex on Northwest Fourth Street. According to White, Goodpasture held her, their 9-month-old son and two females, ages 19 and 17, at knifepoint and refused to let them leave the apartment, according to a news release from the Bend Police Department. Goodpasture is accused of forcing the group upstairs, but White and friend Felicia Pozuelos, 19, of Sunriver, were able to escape. Goodpasture allegedly took his son and the 17-year-old girl into a bathroom and refused to come out when confronted by police. Officers from the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team were sent to the scene and negotiated with Goodpasture for several hours. The 17-year-old managed to escape when she left the bathroom to retrieve items for the infant. After losing communication with Goodpasture, police forced their way into the bathroom, rescued Goodpasture’s son and arrested Goodpasture at about 2 p.m., police said. See Police / A7
Deficits imperil the benefits long linked to European life By Steven Erlanger New York Times News Service
PARIS — Across Western Europe, the “lifestyle superpower,” the assumptions and gains of a lifetime are suddenly in doubt. The deficit crisis that threatens the euro has also undermined the sustainability of the European standard of social welfare, built by left-leaning governments since the end of World War II. Europeans have boasted about their so- Inside cial model, with • U.S. financial its generous vaoverhaul bill: cations and eara big test for ly retirements, lobbyists, its national Page A2 health care systems and extensive welfare benefits, contrasting it with the comparative harshness of American capitalism. Europeans have benefited from low military spending, protected by NATO and the American nuclear umbrella. They have also translated higher taxes into a cradle-to-grave safety net. “The Europe that protects” is a slogan of the European Union. But all over Europe, governments with big budgets, falling tax revenues and aging populations are experiencing climbing deficits, with more bad news ahead. See Europe / A8