Bulletin Daily Paper 07/01/10

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Bear makes stop in Sisters Cyclist in critical condition Crowd gathers to view animal treed by dog By Scott Hammers The Bulletin

SISTERS — A black bear camped out in a tree in the middle of downtown Sisters attracted a large audience Wednesday afternoon, as more than 100 people gathered at Village Green Park to watch efforts to coax the bear to the ground. Craig Derksen, a teacher from Singapore visiting his family’s cabin at Black Butte Ranch, was sitting under a tree in the park around 2 p.m., reading “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” when someone screamed “Bear!” “He was headed straight toward me, literally he was running so fast I realized

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I didn’t have time to move, so I decided to stay still,” Derksen said. “He came within 10 feet of me and headed right up the tree I was sitting under. It was quite something ... It happened so fast, I didn’t have time to get scared.” The bear later moved to a second tree, and agents from the Department of Fish and Wildlife arrived at the park around 3:15 p.m. to set up a live trap baited with barbecue sauce and cantaloupe, but the bear turned down the spread, and instead headed out into the streets when it climbed out of the tree at around 4:30 p.m. Deputies from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, members of the Oregon State Police Game Division and representatives of ODFW followed the bear as it roamed through multiple neighborhoods and headed out of the city to the west. See Bear / A6

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Driver Kirk Bashore is loaded into an ambulance following the crash on Century Drive that critically injured cyclist Shelli Zulauf on Wednesday. Bashore was treated at St. Charles Bend and released, while Zulauf remains in critical condition.

BEND — A Bend woman was critically injured when she was struck by a vehicle while cycling with friends near the intersection of Century Drive and Southwest Mammoth in southwest Bend around 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Shelli Zulauf, 40, of Bend, was second in a line of three cyclists riding single file in the bike lane and with the flow of traffic north toward Bend, Bend Police said, when she was struck by a Dodge Durango driven by Kirk Bashore, 75, of Bend, who was traveling in the same direction. Sgt. Greg Owens said Zulauf was struck by the driver’s side of the Durango, which had drifted into the bike lane. The Durango continued on the shoulder of the road for about 75 yards, then crossed both lanes of Century Drive, crashed into the embankment and rolled. Both Bashore and Zulauf were taken by ambulance to St. Charles Bend. See Collision / A5

Redmond centennial: City celebrates its first 100 years

By Tim Doran The Bulletin

Some qualified Pacific Power customers will soon be receiving checks from the utility for producing solar power at their homes and businesses. The payments, which will continue Inside monthly for 15 • Fannie Mae, years, will be Freddie Mac made to those threaten to enrolled in the derail energy Oregon Soefficiency lar Incentive program, Program. Pacific PowPage B2 er and other utilities will begin taking applications at 8 a.m. today. So Paul Israel, president and founder of Sunlight Solar Energy, and many of the dozen employees in the Bend office worked into Wednesday evening preparing 21 applications for Central Oregon customers the company planned to submit. He expects the available slots to fill in 15 minutes. “We are in crunch time for tomorrow morning,” he said Wednesday night. See Solar / A5

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Geneticists to study singer Ozzy Osbourne

nly a fool would fail to bring in 100 trout in a single day of fishing the Deschutes River. The climate was ripe for every kind of crop — grains, fruits, vegetables. And the booming town of about 200 was ideal for an ambitious businessman. That’s all according to a pamphlet produced sometime around Redmond’s incorporation on July 6, 1910. The city still attempts to draw people with a similar pitch, emphasizing business opportunities and the outdoors. As the city prepares to celebrate its 100th birthday this weekend, local leaders still present the city as a business-friendly one in an outdoors heaven. The 35-page recruiting pamphlet with pictures of the Deschutes, Cline Falls and Smith Rock — inspired Redmond’s centennial materials — posters, hats and T-shirts. Beginning Friday, the city will

hold a celebration that will last trough Tuesday. A Fourth of July parade will run down Sixth Street, and several concerts and a fair will be held over the weekend in the city’s new Centennial Park. The weekend is as much a chance to dress in period outfits — which people are encouraged to do over the weekend — as it is to look forward, Mayor George Endicott said. With a revitalized downtown and new park, Endicott hopes the city’s new editions, like the park, have turned Redmond into a destination. “For many years, I can remember Redmond was kind of a bedroom community of Bend. If you couldn’t afford to live in Bend, you lived in Redmond,” Endicott said. “We’re trying to change that whole image. Downtown is a lot nicer than it was a few years ago. The new park is fantastic. That is a success beyond our wildest dreams.” See Redmond / A4

ST. LOUIS — He is famous for many things. For his eerie scream. For his “Satan worship.” For biting the head off a dove. And a bat. But, mostly, Ozzy Osbourne has become famous for indulging in decades of near-legendary substance abuse — abuse that would vanquish most — and surviving. Now scientists could find out why. While the “Godfather of Heavy Metal” may not be heading to St. Louis during his current world tour, his genes are. Sometime next month DNA extracted from a sample of Osbourne’s blood will be sent to St. Louis-based Cofactor Genomics, where researchers will sequence Osbourne’s genome — or map his genetic blueprint.

‘What’s in the DNA?’ “They’re taking someone who’s healthy, who should have disease, and looking at that,” explained Jon Armstrong, Cofactor’s chief marketing officer. “What’s in the DNA, and what does it have that others don’t have?” In other words: Why is the self-dubbed Prince of Darkness still alive? See Ozzy / A4

Courtesy Redmond Historical Commission

In 1911, Sixth Street in Redmond was still a dirt road. Above is a view from that year, looking north from what became Evergreen Avenue. A sepia tone has been added to this photo.

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Inside: More on Redmond’s centennial

On the Web • The opening of Centennial Park is

• Timeline shows key events in city’s history, Page A4 • Your guide to centennial celebration events, Page A4

set to kick off Redmond’s 100th birthday celebration. Check out the video at www.bendbulletin.com/park.

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Ozzy Osbourne performs with Black Sabbath during the 1997 Ozzfest concert at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J.


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