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Fresh disputes over Highland parking plans By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
Two months ago, neighbors and parents fought Bend-La Pine Schools and Highland Magnet School to keep back-in angle parking off of Harmon Boulevard. Now neighbors are expressing displeasure about other parts of the plan created by city and school district officials, including new sidewalks, crosswalks and changes to parking in the area. At a meeting between city staff and Highland neighbors on Tuesday, staff discussed plans to change traffic flow around the 90-year-old school, located on Newport Avenue and with just a small faculty parking lot sitting behind it. Neighbors said they felt ignored; they said the planned changes would not mitigate the traffic woes around the school.
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Canada geese have long been a part of the scenery in Bend, but over the past two decades the number of geese that have decided to make Bend’s green, organically fertilized parks their home year-round has grown. “It’s like a four-star hotel for them,” said Jan Taylor, the community relations manager for Bend Park & Recreation District. Not anymore. On Tuesday morning 109 geese were rounded up at Drake Park and taken by truck to the park district’s shop on Simpson Avenue. There each goose was transferred into a trash-can-sized enclosure filled with carbon dioxide. The process is meant to be quick and humane, Taylor said.
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The Pine Marten Express chairlift at Mt. Bachelor will start running for the summer season on Thursday, offering a scenic roundtrip ride up the mountain to the Pine Marten Lodge. The lift will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily and until 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Tickets cost $15 for a daytime ride or $12 for an evening trip (seniors and youths pay less, and children 5 and under ride for free). Summertime attractions at Mt. Bachelor include an 18-hole disc golf course, sled dog rides in a dry-land cart, U.S. Forest Service interpretive talks and weekend Sunset Dinners at the lodge. For a complete list of lift ticket prices, or to find out more about activities and dinner reservations, log on to www.mtbachelor.com.
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In a story headlined “Critics decry path to possible resort,” which appeared Sunday, April 4, on Page A1, a comment by Deschutes County Planning Commissioner Ed Criss was reported incorrectly. Criss said a proposal to remove destination resort zoning from all subdivisions in Deschutes County appeared to be targeted at Aspen Lakes subdivision, to block the owners’ plans to convert it into a resort. The headline for a story titled, “Area district leaves school insurance pool; others look to follow,” which appeared on Page A1 on Sunday, June 27, was incorrect. The High Desert Education Service District never entered the Oregon Educators Benefit Board insurance pool and will not have to join for at least two years. The Bulletin regrets the errors.
The McKenzie Pass Highway, officially known as state Highway 242, has been cleared of snow and is scheduled to open to vehicle traffic at noon today. Built between 1919 and 1924, the historic highway opens for a few months every summer, providing motorists access to Clear Lake, the Dee Wright Observatory and other destinations. Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman Peter Murphy said this year’s opening day is slightly on the later side, due to a cool spring and lingering snow at higher elevations. The highway Mt. Washington has been opened as 7,794 ft. Bluegrass Butte 126 early as March 21, in George Pacific Lake Dugout 1934, and as late as 20 Crest y Butte wa July 29, in 1999. Last h Trail g 242 Hi year, road construcss a P tion delayed the openLittle Sisters Belknap Crater ing of the highway Belknap Windy Point 6,872 ft. until Aug. 10. Mc Ke nz ie
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Killing these geese was the last resort in a years-long effort to lower the goose population in Bend, Taylor said. The goose meat will be processed and donated to local food banks later this week, Taylor said. “We love the geese,” Taylor said. “Geese are part of what make the parks beautiful. It’s just overpopulation that is a problem.” See Geese / A4
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Using bond money Bend-La Pine Schools plans to use funding from the $119 million bond — passed by voters in 2006 — to pay for additional parking at the magnet school, where often more than two dozen cars park — some illegally — around the school at the beginning and end of each school day. The project was slated to cost about $100,000. In addition to the back-in angle parking, it called for a new bus pullout zone and various safety improvements. The school board abandoned back-in angle parking in April after parents and neighbors expressed concerns about the safety of the students. See Parking / A5
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fer of a coveted internship with the Shanghai office of the British banking giant HSBC, which later led to a full-time job. “A lot of people think it’s not very good politics — a kind of scandal — to have these kinds of small procedures,” said He Zen, a petite, confident woman who’s now an HSBC manager. “I wouldn’t tell anybody. No-
body knows.” She’s one of thousands of young Chinese women, and an increasing number of men, who are choosing to have eyelid reconstruction, nasal bridge augmentation or breast enlargements in hopes of improving their chances of finding mates, getting better jobs or both. See Surgery / A5
NEW YORK — They raised children, went to work in the city each day, talked the small talk with neighbors about yard work and overpriced contractors. In short, they could have been any family in any suburb in America. In Montclair, N.J., a woman who lived next to the Murphy family described them as “suburbia personified.” They asked their neighbors for advice about the best middle schools to send their two young daughters. Richard Murphy mowed the lawn; Cynthia Murphy would come home from her job as a financial-services executive, daffodils and French bread in her hands.
‘Talk about gardening’ “We would talk about gardening and dogs and kids,” said one neighbor, Corine Jones, 53. Miles away in Yonkers, there lived another ordinary couple, Vicky Pelaez and her husband, Juan Jose Lazaro Sr. They doted on their two pet schnauzers and their teenage son, Juan Jose Lazaro Jr., a classical pianist. See Spy Ring / A4
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MIAMI — Rough seas and high winds from Hurricane Alex, churning in the Gulf of Mexico far west of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, forced the suspension Tuesday of skimming and booming operations off the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama and Florida, a BP spokesman said. Inclement weather did not affect operations at the site of the well head, about 41 miles off the Louisiana coast, where large ships are capturing oil from the ruptured pipe and drilling relief wells that offer the best chance to seal the undersea gusher. But smaller ships, or so-called vessels of opportunity — contracted by BP to skim oily water, lay boom and transport personnel — were idled for the day, said Bryan Ferguson, a BP representative manning the Unified Command station in New Orleans. “When seas get above two to three feet, it becomes a challenge for skimming and booming,” Ferguson said, noting that about 2,800 vessels of opportunity were currently contracted for the spill response. The National Weather Service reported seas as high as 12 feet in parts of the Gulf.
Biden visits region Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden began a tour of the region on Tuesday, meeting with national and local response teams and residents affected by
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ami said they are prepared to respond should oil reach the state’s southern shores — a risk that appears distant for now. “We’re in a pretty safe place along the Florida peninsula,” said NOAA scientist Eric Stabenau. “The projections are for the oil to go even further away from Florida” because of winds from Alex. While the storm pushes oil away from Florida, though, high seas and winds have delayed the launch of a new system for capturing more oil from the ruptured well. The system, which consists of a flexible pipe attached to a containment dome lowered over the ruptured well head, would siphon oil to the Helix Producer, a ship with the capacity to collect 20,000 to 25,000 barrels a day. BP spokespersons said the system should be ready to launch by July 8.
LONDON — Activists opposing BP burst into a party Monday night at Tate Britain art gallery, spilling cans of an oil-like liquid inside and outside the gallery to protest BP’s 20-year sponsorship. Black-clad protesters with veils over their heads splattered the party entrance with cans of treacle bearing the BP logo, then sprinkled bird feathers over the slick. Another group smuggled cans inside, under their skirts, and emptied them in the columned main hall. Meanwhile, about a dozen artists wearing black separately picketed the party. “What do we want? Liberate Tate!” they hollered. “When do we want it? Now!” BP has shed half of its market value after causing the worst-ever U.S. oil spill in April. The company is a long-standing sponsor of Tate Britain, the British Museum, the Royal Opera House and the National Portrait Gallery. BP has said it will maintain those London sponsorships, which together cost it more than $1.5 million a year. The April 20 explosion at BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico has led environmentalists and activists to step up their actions and target London institutions backed by BP. “It’s a very difficult decision for an institution to make,” Tate Director Nick Serota said, referring to offers of corporate funding. “There’s no money that is completely pure.”
FDA seeks cut in use of livestock antibiotics By Lyndsey Layton The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration urged farmers on Monday to stop giving antibiotics to cattle, poultry, hogs and other animals to spur their growth, citing concern that drug overuse is helping to create dangerous bacteria that do not respond to medical treatment and endanger human lives. Joshua Sharfstein, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner, said antibiotics should be used only to protect the health of an animal and not to help it grow or improve the way it digests its feed. “This is an urgent public health issue,” Sharfstein said during a conference call with reporters. “To preserve the effectiveness (of antibiotics), we simply must use them as judiciously as possible.” The FDA issued a draft of its guidance, and the public has 60 days to comment on the draft. Sharfstein said that the guidance was a first step, and the agency would issue new regulations if the industry does not comply voluntarily. “We have the regulatory mechanisms, and industry knows that,” he said. “We also think things can be done voluntarily. We’re not handcuffed to the steering wheel of a particular strategy, but I’m not ruling out anything that we can do to establish these important public-health goals.”
30-year effort The FDA has tried to limit the use of antibiotics in agriculture since 1977, but its efforts have repeatedly collapsed in the face of opposition from the drug industry and farm lobby. But mounting evidence of a global crisis of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has propelled the government to act, said Brad Spellberg, an infectious-diseases specialist and the author of “Rising Plague,” a book about antibiotic resistance. “The writing is on the wall,” said Spellberg, who teaches at the
David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. “We’re in an era where antibiotic resistance is out of control, and we’re running out of drugs and new drugs are not being developed. We can’t continue along the path we’re on.” The European Union banned the feeding of antibiotics and related drugs to livestock for growth promotion in 2006. U.S. farmers routinely give antibiotics to food-producing animals to treat illnesses, prevent infection and encourage growth. The drugs are often added to drinking water and feed. The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of antibiotics and related drugs used in the United States are given to animals.
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Geese Continued from A1 After months of hazing geese — shooing them off with dogs, canoes and other non-lethal methods — and oiling over 160 eggs to prevent goslings from being born, Park Services Director Ed Moore said, the parks district found last week that 340 geese had returned to Drake Park. This was significantly more than expected, Moore said, and the decision was made to ask permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s local Wildlife Services Division and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to kill up to 200 resident geese. Permission was granted.
Some geese released So on Tuesday morning, 136 geese were taken from Drake Park. The 109 geese known by the wildlife services biologists to be residents were euthanized. The 27 non-resident geese in the bunch were banded and released for further study. No juveniles were caught; had they been, they would have been released at Summer Lake, Moore said. Moore said the overpopulation of geese in Bend’s open spaces had made some of the parks nearly unusable. He said the district regularly received complaints about the amount of goose feces covering the lawns and pathways. The parks district even purchased a machine that specialized in vacuuming up goose poop. Keeping the parks “beautiful — that’s one part of it,” Moore said. “But ‘useful’ is really what we hear from people. People want to be able to bring the grandkids and have a picnic.” Hazing efforts will continue this summer, Taylor said, and the process will begin again next spring. No further killings will take place this summer. The decision on whether to use lethal removal next year will be based on how well the renewed hazing efforts work, Taylor said. The parks district has worked in conjunction with a number of agencies in implementing its goose management plan, Taylor said. For example, the USDA’s biologists have helped count and track Bend geese to determine how many are residents and how many are just passing through; that agency also was in charge of the lethal removal efforts.
for lethal removal of some geese if the hazing efforts did not work. Sandy Klein, the development specialist for NeighborImpact in Redmond, which will accept half of the donated goose meat, said she was glad to have more healthful food available for hungry families. (The other half will be donated to Bend Community Center, Moore said.) The need for food has gone up, and Klein said NeighborImpact’s food bank, which serves as the Oregon Food Bank regional distribution center for Central Oregon, is now providing food for more than 14,000 people who are accessing emergency food sites each month. “I know a lot of people don’t like the fact that they’re doing that,” Klein said, referring to the lethal removal of geese, “but the end result is, they are using those (geese) to help needy families, and I think that’s a good thing. People need to remember it’s not being wasted.”
Meat in high demand Klein said she knew the meat would not be wasted because when the food bank last had goose meat on the shelves, it went quickly. Klein said one goose breast could be the meat portion of a meal for a small family. Klein said goose meat “doesn’t taste like turkey, and it doesn’t taste like chicken. It tastes like goose. It’s a dark meat — very hardy and filling.” Scott Wallace, the chairman of the board for Bend Park & Recreation District, said he knew that some people did not support the decision to kill any resident geese. However, he said, when the board accepted public comments, most of the people who came forward favored doing whatever was necessary to control the goose population. “It’s unfortunate that we don’t have ample space to sustain all of the geese that we’ve got,” Wallace said. “We’re about maintaining and taking care of what we have. Geese are a part of — and will continue to be a part of — the parks, just not in the densities that we’ve seen.” Lillian Mongeau can be reached at 541-617-7818 or at lmongeau@bendbulletin.com.
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food out of her mouth to give to someone who needs it,” Monica Chang, a friend of Pelaez’s who worked with her at Frecuencia Latina, said in a telephone interview from Peru. The authorities said that of the three couples, all but Pelaez had assumed false identities. And while neighbors and relatives detailed all the ways that they were typical families, the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan detailed their alleged work as secret agents.
Continued from A1 The elder Lazaro had been known among his students at Baruch College for his outspoken left-leaning politics, and his comments in class offended some but earned respect from others, just as Pelaez’s columns for El Diario La Prensa, one of the country’s most popular Spanish-language newspapers, had earned her a following of both fans and critics. And in Cambridge, Mass., there was Donald Heathfield and his wife, Tracey Lee Ann Foley. He received his master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2000; she worked for a real estate company, passing a background check before she was hired. Movies, books and television shows have taken to depicting suburbia as a place where not all is as it seems, where people with decent jobs and decent homes mask their secret double lives, and that seemed to be the case here: The three couples were among 11 people arrested as part of a ring that prosecutors said spied for the Russians under deep cover inside the United States.
No signs of unusual behavior recalled Relatives, friends, classmates, neighbors and co-workers of the three couples expressed shock at the arrests, and they searched their memories for signs that something was amiss, but mostly came up blank. “I didn’t know they were spies, but I know what they weren’t,” said Stanley Skolnik, 67, a neighbor of the Murphys. “They weren’t unusual.” Some of those who knew the couples said there might have been clues, too subtle to cause concern. A neighbor asked Murphy, who received her MBA from Columbia Business School last month, if she was from Russia, after hearing her accent. Murphy said that no, she was from Belgium.
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The home of Richard and Cynthia Murphy in Montclair, N.J., on Tuesday. The Murphy’s were among 11 arrested in an alleged Russian spy ring by the FBI on Monday. Classmates of Heathfield at dIn. Another of the 11 arrested, Harvard thought highly of him, Anna Chapman, ran a real esbut “his work was a little bit tate website and said she wanted mysterious,” said Craig Sandler, to start a venture fund to broker a classmate who is the president partnerships between American of State House News Service, a and Russian businessmen. news organization in Boston. In her native country, Peru, But there were also those who Pelaez had earned acclaim as a were skeptical that federal inves- television reporter for Frecuentigators had arrested the right cia Latina, and was briefly kidindividuals, saying that they did napped in 1984 by a group of leftnot believe the ist insurgents. accusations and, At El Diario, in the case of “I didn’t know where she had Pelaez and Laz- (Richard and Cynthia worked for more aro, that their than 20 years, pro-Communist Murphy) were spies, Pelaez’s colpolitical views but I know what they umns had a folmade them lowing, broachtargets of the weren’t: They weren’t ing topics that investigation. were openly unusual.” On Tuesday sy mpathetic afternoon, as — Stanley Skolnik, neighbor to Cuba, Haiti Waldo Marand Venezuela iscal, Pelaez’s and that were son from a previous marriage, critical of the Bush and Obama walked out of the family’s house administrations. Her work was in Yonkers, he was asked if reprinted on leftist websites, inPelaez and Lazaro had any con- cluding some sponsored by the nection to Russia. Cuban government. “Yes,” Mariscal said. “Russian music. Tchaikovsky.” ‘Dedicated mother,’ Unlike other Americans accused of spying over the de- ‘compassionate’ cades, the three couples did not “It’s not like I’m defending shy from leading private lives Vicky just for the sake of dethat were in many ways quite fending her, but I know her as a public. Murphy kept a page on dedicated mother and a compasthe networking website Linke- sionate woman who would take
‘Core Resident Geese’ An e-mail sent last week from Mike Slater, the supervisory wildlife biologist for the region, to Taylor notes, “the focus of lethal removal will be on those geese that we term ‘Core Resident Geese,’ which are those geese that we have evidence and knowledge of continually using the BMPRD [Bend Metro Park and Recreation District, the district’s former name] park system throughout the year.” Slater’s e-mail states that evidence was gathered during a yearlong survey and during the spring hazing efforts. The district also received training from GeesePeace, a nonprofit organization that helps cities combat goose overpopulation, and the Humane Society in nonlethal removal efforts. Scott Beckstead, the senior state director for the Humane Society, wrote in a prepared statement, “we are saddened and disillusioned that Bend and USDA took this step. Unfortunately, our experience has shown that, after the money has been spent to fund the USDA round-up, and after the molt, Bend’s parks will continue to be plagued because more geese will simply fill this vacuum.” Moore said the Humane Society had been excellent “friends in this process” and had provided a significant amount of help, but that the plan had always called
Israeli minister: No Palestinian state by 2012 New York Times News Service TEL AVIV, Israel — In remarks that could further strain peace efforts, Israel’s foreign minister said Tuesday that a Palestinian state would not be established in the next two years. “I’m an optimistic person, but there is absolutely no chance of reaching a Palestinian state by 2012,” the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said. “One can dream and imagine, but we are far from reaching understandings and an agreement.” Lieberman spoke at a joint news conference in Jerusalem with Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister.
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Chapman met with a Russian government official each week since January, the complaint said. Once, after a meeting with an FBI undercover agent posing as a Russian consulate employee, she bought a cell phone and provided a false name and address: 99 Fake Street. Pelaez and Lazaro were accused of receiving packages of money from representatives of the Russian government. Surveillance of their Yonkers home in 2003 revealed “the irregular electronic clicking sounds associated with the receipt of coded radio transmissions,” according to federal court papers. In fall 2008, the elder Lazaro taught a class on Latin American politics at Baruch College. Students said he denounced the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and praised the health and educational systems in Cuba; among the required reading was “The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals and the Truth About Global Corruption.”
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