Bulletin Daily Paper 06/04/10

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Beard & Moustache Competition begins Saturday in Bend

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Bend girl out of spelling bee By Keith Chu The Bulletin

WASHINGTON — Bend’s Hannah Allison spelled both of her words correctly in the first two oral rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, but she still fell short of qualifying for the semifinals today. Even so, Hannah, 13, said she wasn’t disappointed. After all, she faced some pretty tough competition. “I knew it was going to be hard because 70 people had been here before,” she said, after the results were announced. Hannah, a home-schooled seventh-grader, came through on the big stage. After starting the day with a breakfast

of a bagel, watermelon and peaches, and about an hour and a half of studying, she spelled “efficacy” with little difficulty. Before and after her turn at the microphone, Hannah intently watched other spellers, sometimes spelling along with them. She did it, Hannah said, because “I just like to spell.” And after the first round, Hannah got a picture with the bee’s pronouncer, Jacques Bailly, who she knew from watching past bees. By the third round, the normal bounds of the English language were apparently too constraining on the competition’s supply of fiendishly difficult words. See Bee / A4

Area schools face tough decisions State cuts put districts deeper in the red By Patrick Cliff and Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

School districts around the region were dealt a blow last week when the state announced further funding cuts. Now district officials are busy finding areas to trim more money and are working with unions to get concessions that will help them stay afloat. On May 25, Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced state agencies supported by taxes, like K-12 schools, community colleges and universities, and health and safety departments, would have to cut

Keith Chu / The Bulletin

Bend’s Hannah Allison, 13, spells “efficacy” in the second round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., Thursday.

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about 9 percent for the final 12 months of the 2009-11 biennium in order to deal with an expected half billion dollar shortfall. For K-12 education, that means a reduction of $243 million. Bend-La Pine Schools must cut about $6.5 million from its approximately $120 million budget, which the board approved last week with various union concessions and funding cuts. Superintendent Ron Wilkinson said district officials will offer a formal recommendation for the new cuts to the school board on Tuesday. See Schools / A4

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Nosler fire investigation continues By Erin Golden and Scott Hammers The Bulletin

A day after a massive explosion ripped through a Bend bullet factory, investigators were back on the scene Thursday, looking for clues about what led to the blast — and figuring out how to safely clean up the mess. By late afternoon, crews were removing hazardous materials and using heavy equipment to take apart the large sections of the building that collapsed in the blast. Debris scattered in a nearby parking lot and down the street was marked with flags.

Cause of explosion still unknown

Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Volunteers plant new flowers around the bushes forming the word “Bend” near the intersection of Third Street, Division Street and the Bend Parkway on Thursday. The display welcoming visitors to the city appeared 18 years ago, when Vicki Brownrigg donated bushes to create the display. Every year since, with the help of the Bend Park & Recreation District, Brownrigg has gathered friends to plant colorful flowers around the bushes. She said they typically plant shortly after Memorial Day, and that volunteers usually follow up the planting with a big lunch at The Riverhouse.

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Officials from the Bend Fire Department, who are working with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Oregon State Police Bomb Squad technicians, have not yet determined the exact cause of the incident at Nosler Inc.’s facility on Southwest Columbia Street. So far, the company has said only that an employee working in an underground ballistics tunnel spotted a flash of light around 2 p.m. Wednesday and pulled a fire alarm. The approximately 100 employees working inside were able to get out before a boom rocked the building. See Explosion / A5

VALLEJO, Calif. — First came the break-in at the combination electronics repair shop and real estate agency. Then came the burglar bars on the store’s plate-glass window. But Jimmy Mozaffar, owner of Data Days, sounds less angry with the criminals than he does with the crime-stoppers here in hardknock Vallejo, the largest city in California history to file for bankruptcy. The thieves made off with laptops, but it was the pared down Police Department — which has lost a third of its officers — that stole Mozaffar’s peace of mind. When Mozaffar called the department to report the burglary last fall, a recording directed him to a website. “Nobody came out,” he said. “They said they’d deal with it.” See Bankrupt / A5

GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. — “Somos amigos,” called Shura Wallin, ducking low into the shade beneath the highway overpass. “We’re friends,” she said again in Spanish, calling out to anyone who might be hiding. “Don’t be afraid.” At a time when state and federal governments are focused on tightening the border to keep out immigrants who cross illegally from Mexico, Wallin and her colleagues help people who make the trip. They leave water and food along well-known foot trails. They distribute maps that show the water sites and search for trekking migrants. Sometimes, they find bodies. Their efforts are at odds

Peter Slevin / Washington Post

Shura Wallin, with the Rev. Randy Mayer, pastor of Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita, Ariz., handing out socks and water to laborers in Sasabe, on the Mexican side of the border. with a new Arizona law that makes it a state crime to be in the United States illegally. One of the staunchest advocates of the hard-line approach, Gov.

Jan Brewer, a Republican, met with President Barack Obama on Thursday afternoon at the White House. See Samaritans / A4


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