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Bend parks await approval for lethal removal of geese Last resort justified, district tells state By Lillian Mongeau The Bulletin
The geese that have made Bend parks their home may soon be killed. The Bend Park & Recreation District plans to have the geese killed if it gets the authorization it is waiting on from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. The district may hear from ODFW as soon as this week. “(Lethal removal) was always an opportunity for us,” said Ed Moore, director of park services. “Our program was to do everything we could by hazing to encourage them not to be there. We feel we have done everything we can, so we’re waiting to hear from ODFW (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife).” Geese could be gassed, drugged or caught in baited nets
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Aspen Ridge Retirement Community residents Chuck Feller, 100, Pat Nixon, 102, Emma Gerhart, 105, and Claude Cramer, 100, are honored as part of a newly formed centenarian society at the retirement home. “We want to honor them as being a vital part of the community,” said Sandie Nowell, life engagement coordinator with Aspen Ridge. “They are just awesome people.”
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Possible firing of general compounds sense of peril in Afghanistan conflict By Karen DeYoung and Scott Wilson
By Lauren Dake Emma Gerhart turned to her left and asked the man sitting next to her, “How old are you?” “100,” said Claude Cramer, who turns 101 in July. “Well, you’re just a kid,” Gerhart said. To Gerhart’s right sat Pat Nixon, who — at 102 years old — is “just a baby,” by Gerhart’s reckoning. And next to Nixon sat the youngest of the four, Chuck Feller, who recently turned 100. Gerhart, her white hair recently curled, her red fingernails nearly matching her boots, is 105 years old. The Aspen Ridge Retirement
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services division on behalf of the park district if the ODFW concurs, according to USDA Supervisory Wildlife Biologist Mike Slater. Though the park district has worked with the nonprofit Geese Peace and conducted months of geese hazing efforts to rid Bend’s parks of geese, the birds remain here in high numbers, Moore said. The high numbers of geese and the resulting goose droppings have become a major concern when it comes to maintaining the local parks, Moore explained. “We would concur with Bend parks and rec that it’s probably a very justified action given the amount of effort and expense that they have gone into,” Slater said. See Geese / A4
Chuck Feller
Pat Nixon
Community started a centenarian group Tuesday and celebrated the four residents who have reached or surpassed 100. The senior citizens in the new Centenarian Society each received a plaque, a T-shirt featuring his or her picture, and a lifetime certificate to the friends and family buffet. “Oh, how wonderful,” Ger-
Emma Gerhart
hart said when she was handed her gifts. “Is that my picture? Well, I’ll be darned.” And then came the question one imagines people who have reached 100 years old hear more than once: What’s your secret? “Oh, boy, for years I drank a martini every afternoon at about 3:30,” Feller said.
Unipronged parody provokes pork board By Dan Eggen The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — If you ever wonder what kind of work the lawyers for powerful industry groups get paid good money for, consider the case of the National Pork Board v. ThinkGeek Inc. Lawyers representing the board, based in Des Moines, Iowa, sent a detailed “cease-and-desist” letter to the Fairfax, Va.-based ThinkGeek website last month over its use of the well-known trademark “The Other White Meat.” There’s just one problem: The meat in question comes from unicorns. Let’s let the lawyers from Faegre & Benson explain: “You have been marketing a product called ‘Radiant Farms Canned Unicorn Meat’ using the slogan ‘Unicorn — the new white meat.’ ” See Parody / A5
Claude Cramer
The residents and family members who attended the event enjoyed Feller’s response. Nixon had a harder time coming up with advice, but her daughter told the crowd she was always active and continued to be so — she played Scrabble for the first time this week. See 100 Years / A5
of peril. However the McChrystal criThe Washington Post sis ends, “much is different goThe firestorm sparked by the ing forward,” a senior adminisgeneral responsible for creat- tration official said. “It’s hard to ing and implementing President brush past it.” Barack Obama’s Afghanistan McChrystal’s apparent disstrategy has further set back dain for his civilian colleagues, U.S. prospects in a war that was and the facts on the ground in already on shaky Afghanistan, have ground. A N A L Y S I S exposed the endurCombat delays, rising fault lines in the ing casualties and agreement Obama new reports of Afghan corrup- forged last fall among policytion have led to growing skepti- makers and military commandcism in Congress and among ers. In exchange for approving the American public. The weak- McChrystal’s request for more ening, and possible firing, of troops and treasure, Obama imGen. Stanley McChrystal over posed, and the military accepted, disrespectful comments he made two deadlines sought by his poabout Obama and his policy litical aides. team has compounded the sense See McChrystal / A5
Lasers uncover first icons of saints By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press
ROME — Twenty-first century laser technology has opened a window into the early days of the Catholic Church, guiding researchers through the dank, musty catacombs beneath Rome to a startling find: the first known icons of the apostles Peter and Paul. Vatican officials unveiled the paintings Tuesday, discovered along with the earliest known images of the apostles John and Andrew in an underground burial chamber beneath an office building on a busy street in a working-class Rome neighborhood. The images, which date from the second half of the 4th century, were uncovered using a new laser technique that allows restorers to burn off centuries of thick white calcium carbonate deposits without damaging the brilliant dark colors of the paintings underneath. See Catacombs / A4
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Catacomb archeological superintendent Fabrizio Bisconti points to frescoes discovered with the earliest known icons of the Apostles Peter and Paul in a catacomb located under a modern office building in a residential neighborhood of Rome on Tuesday.
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