Bulletin Daily Paper 06/07/10

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New forest to stay much as it was By Lillian Mongeau The Bulletin

For the first time in more than 60 years, Oregon will dedicate a new state forest on Friday. The land, located about 45 miles south of Bend, has been privately owned since the early 1950s and has long been used by locals for hunting, horseback riding, hiking and other

outdoor activities. In the winter, the area is a popular spot for snowmobile riding. None of that is expected to change in the near future, according to Doug Decker, state forest project leader for the Oregon Department of Forestry. “You see a lot of state parks that have some pretty elaborate improvements, but I don’t see that happening here. It

will remain pretty pristine,” said Barbara Sullivan, president of the CrescentGilchrist Community Access Team. John Pellissier, the unit forester at the Klamath Lake state forestry district office, said the state’s activities on the land will be about the same as those of the current owners. See Forest / A2

Inside • Gilchrist State Forest: where it is and where it may grow, Page A2 Gilchrist State Forest to be

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On Friday, the Oregon Depa rtment of Forestry will dedicate 43,235 acres near Gilchrist as the first new state forest in more than 60 years. The state hopes to purchase an adjacent 25,45 3-ac nonprofit Conservation Fund re parcel from the as soon as public funds become available.

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Deschutes audit lists a few issues, but just a few By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

Survivors and supporters celebrate hope

Photos by Tyler Roemer / The Bulletin

The annual 5K Heaven Can Wait walk/run has raised more than $640,000 for Sara’s Project, which promotes early breast cancer detection and provides support for women with the disease. Participants, seen here Sunday across from McKay Park, started and finished at Drake Park.

By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin

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im Clark, of Bend, couldn’t participate in the first Heaven Can Wait event to support breast cancer programs and research. In 2000, she had just had surgery for cancer, and remembers being barely able to wave at her friends who did walk in the event to support her. But since then Clark, 52, has been back every year. And on Sunday morning she joined thousands of other cancer survivors and their supporters at Drake Park for the start of the 5K walk/run, which benefits Sara’s Project at St. Charles. “It’s a great celebration, and it’s fabulous to see everyone come out,” Clark said. “It’s very touching.”

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The Heaven Can Wait walk/run started with about 1,000 people and has grown since then, said Charlene Levesque, one of the founders of the event, noting that Sunday’s event could reach close to 4,000 participants. So far, Heaven Can Wait has raised more than $640,000 for Sara’s Project, which promotes early breast cancer detection and provides support for women with the disease. It’s a way to give hope to people going through cancer treatments to see the survivors, who wear denim hats, participating as well, Levesque said. “You can look around the park and see those blue denim caps worn by women who are happy and healthy,” she said. “You can look and say, ‘I can do it.’” See Benefit / A4

TOP NEWS INSIDE OIL: Effects to last well into the fall, Coast Guard says, Page A3 TERROR: Two arrested at airport, bound for Somalia, Page A3

Large public construction projects are being well-managed in Deschutes County, but there is room for improvement, according to a recent audit. One of the main concerns raised in the audit was that the primary contractor on a landfill project, Kirby Nagelhout Construction Co., was able to charge higher markups on change orders because one of the subcontractors was another Nagelhout company, KN Exco, said David Givans, the county’s internal auditor, on Friday. Oregon Secretary of State business records show that Kirby Nagelhout is the president of KN Exco. “Since the contract was silent on this, and it was not challenged, they were able to increase their markups from what would have been allowable,” Givans wrote in the audit. “The markups resulted in a 22 percent markup as opposed to 10 percent. Over the 25 change orders, the prime contractor received $8,550 more by this arrangement.” Contractors submit change orders to ask for more money on a project, either because the client has requested additional work or because the contractor believes something will cost more than originally estimated. Givans examined the county’s construction management practices from 2006 to present by looking at three major projects, worth a total of approximately $21 million. The projects examined in the audit were a county RV park in Redmond, a new building for the county 911 dispatch center in Bend, and the expansion of Knott Landfill and construction of new solid waste facilities there. See Audit / A4

What brain scans can tell us about marriage By Tara Parker-Pope New York Times News Service

Mackenzie Winner, left, 22, of Redmond, Alison Challocombe, 53, of Bend, and Afton Winner, 23, of Redmond, take part in the event Sunday.

Inside • Heaven Can Wait results, Page D2

Attached to technology, paying for it in concentration By Matt Richtel New York Times News Service

SAN FRANCISCO — When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it. Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting

through old messages: A big company wanted to buy his Internet startup. The message had slipped by him amid an electronic flood: two computer screens alive with e-mail, instant messages, online chats, a Web browser and the computer code he was writing. See Multitask / A4

The sudden breakup of Al and Tipper Gore’s seemingly idyllic marriage was the latest and among the sharpest reminders that the only two people who know what’s going on in a marriage are the two people who are in it. The truth is that most marriages, even our own, are something of a mystery to outsiders. Several years ago, a marriage researcher — Robert Levenson, director of the psychophysiology laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley — and his colleagues produced a video of 10 couples talking and bickering. Levenson knew at the time that five of the couples had been in troubled relationships and eventually divorced. He showed the video to 200 people, including pastors, marriage therapists and relationship scientists, asking them to spot the doomed marriages. They guessed wrong half the time. See Brain scans / A2


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