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Deschutes amends its resort plan to benefit of Aspen Lakes
Unknown body pulled from river with care
By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
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Search-and-rescue workers pulled a body out of the Deschutes River near the spillway at the Newport Avenue Bridge on Monday afternoon, but police said it could take some time to figure out who it is — or how he or she ended up underwater. Police and medics were called to the scene at 12:05 p.m. after a group of Bend Park & Recreation District employees using dogs to scare away geese spotted feet in the water. Some of the employees were on the water in kayaks and canoes, and others were standing
along the bank of the river. “I’m on land, and the next thing you know, all my co-workers were coming in as fast as they can, so I knew something was up,” said park worker Aaron Scarberry. Lt. Ben Gregory of the Bend Police Department said medics quickly determined that there was not a live person in the river. Several Bend police detectives and officers were called to the scene, along with more than a dozen Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue volunteers and staff from Pacific Power, which operates the spillway. See Body / A5
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A Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue diver comes up for new gloves Monday afternoon while working to recover a body found near the spillway downstream from the Newport Avenue Bridge in Bend. The body was removed from the river around 3:30 p.m. Officials were not able to determine the person’s gender, age or race.
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A last-minute amendment by the Deschutes County Commission Monday could protect a Sisters-area family’s resort development plans, but it is drawing criticism from some nearby residents. The Cyruses stood to lose any chance of converting their existing Aspen Lakes golf course and subdivision into a destination resort if the County Commission approved ordinances to remove subdivisions from the county’s resort zone map as originally proposed. Land must be on the map in order for the owners to apply for a resort, and the county is in the midst of updating its resort zone map to remove lands ineligible for resorts. Instead, the County Commission voted unanimously Monday to amend one of the ordinances with an exception the commissioners said was intended to help the Cyrus family’s plans. Matt Cyrus met separately with each of the three county commissioners on Thursday morning, and explained to them the ordinances would prevent his family from keeping the subdivision they developed on the resort eligibility map, the three commissioners said. Later Thursday afternoon, Cyrus e-mailed the county’s Planning Director, Nick Lelack, with a suggestion for specific language to amend the ordinances. The public comment period had passed by Monday. See Resorts / A5
Bend man missing since Aug.1 last seen in same area
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Justin Burkhart, a 28-yearold man who went missing in August, was last seen walking near Harmon Park on the west side of the footbridge across the river. In the early morning hours of Aug. 1, Burkhart told friends he was going downtown to get a snack. He has not been seen since. On Monday, a body was discovered in the same area Justin the police Burkhart searched in Nove m b e r — the still water just above the spillway northeast of Mirror Pond. As of Monday evening, police had not released any information about the gender, race or likely age of the recovered body. Eloisa Chavez, Burkhart’s mother, hired a private detective to help search for her son. Burkhart’s friends hung posters around town with his photograph and requests for any information about his whereabouts. With few leads, the Bend Police Department, in conjunction with Deschutes County Search and Rescue, conducted searches of Mirror Pond soon after Burkhart disappeared. Last November, police performed a final search of the spillway and hydroelectric dam near the Newport bridge. No sign of Burkhart was found. The morning after Burkhart was seen near Harmon Park heading toward downtown, friends arrived at his home to pick him up for a fishing trip. They found the house empty and Burkhart’s cell phone left behind. See Missing / A5
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Therapist Tammy Paulowski works with Kara Anderson, 9, who has cerebral palsy and could not walk on her own most of her life, at an Indiana rehab facility. After Kara received stem cell treatments in China, she could get around with crutches.
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BEIJING — Disillusioned by U.S. doctors who could not help their daughter with cerebral palsy, Kara Anderson’s parents did something they could not have imagined a few years ago: They took her to China. Specialists in the Chicago area, where the family lives, said that Kara’s brain injury was permanent and that the 9-year-old would probably end up in a wheelchair because of severe twisting in her leg muscles. But then her parents began hearing stories about children who had improved after receiving injections of stem cells. The treatment was not available in the United States. It was commercially available only abroad. That’s how the Andersons joined the desperate people who are taking leaps of faith in seeking stem-cell treatments in places as far away as
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China, India, Russia and Brazil. Western scientists worry that patients are being taken in by slick marketing campaigns, wasting time, money and hope on unproven therapies, and perhaps even putting themselves in danger. “Unregulated therapy in the ab-
sence of any evidence that these cells are going to help patients is reckless. The potential to do harm is enormous,” said Arnold Kreigstein, a neurologist who is director of stem cell research at the University of California at San Francisco. See Stem cells / A4
trade by Iran’s fleet By Jo Becker New York Times News Service
On Jan. 24, 2009, a rusting freighter flying a Hong Kong flag dropped anchor in the South African port of Durban. The stop was not on the ship’s customary route, and it stayed only an hour, just long enough to pick up its clandestine cargo: Inside a Bladerunner 51 speedboat • White House that could be armed with torpemakes case does and used as a fast-attack to the U.N., craft in the Persian Gulf. Page A3 The name painted on the ship’s side as it left Durban and made for the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas was the Diplomat, and its papers showed that it was owned by a company called Starry Shine Ltd. Both the name and provenance were of recent vintage. Six months earlier, the Diplomat had been the Iran Mufateh, part of a fleet owned by the state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, known as Irisl. See Iran / A5