Bulletin Daily Paper 07/30/10

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Redmond K-9 Rocky to work till the end You can help Donations to Redmond Friends of K-9 can be made at any Bank of the Cascades location.

By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

Soon after Rocky, a Belgian malinois, joined the Redmond Police Department as a patrol dog, he was called to a chase that had passed through Redmond and into Prineville. The man the police were chasing ditched his car above the city and ran into the brush. Working by moonlight,

Rob Kerr The Bulletin

$250K to help Bend buy 3.5 riverfront acres

DESCHUTES COUNTY FAIR

By Hillary Borrud and Lauren Dake The Bulletin

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A $250,000 state lottery grant awarded to the Bend park district this week will boost plans for a new riverfront park just north of Colorado Avenue in Bend. The Bend Park & Recreation District already set aside $750,000 of its own money to buy the land this year, and The Trust for Public Land is fundraising for the remainder of the $1.81 million purchase price. The approximately 3.5-acre site is on the east bank of the Deschutes River, across from McKay Park. The planned park, tentatively called Miller’s Landing, could feature a connection to the Deschutes River Trail, a beach and boat landing area, off-street parking and a structure that might include restrooms, according to a conceptual drawing and e-mail from Bruce Ronning, director of planning and development for Bend Park & Recreation District. The park would also provide access to proposed water features at the Colorado Avenue Dam and spillway, such as a whitewater play area for kayakers and a calm channel for people floating down the river on rafts. See Park / A5

Developer still in critical condition; wife says she shot him accidentally By Erin Golden The Bulletin

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Redmond, get squished together while riding “The Scrambler” on Thursday night at the Deschutes County Fair in Redmond. The fun

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p.m., rodeo events begin at the Juniper Rodeo Arena, and ’70s supergroup

The Pond: Secret spy organization predated the CIA

Styx will take the stage at the Hooker Creek Event Center. The fair ends Saturday.

On the Web

Check out video from the fair at www.bendbulletin.com/fair

By Randy Herschaft and Cristian Salazar

Fair rides: The science behind the thrills and chills By Lulu Liu McClatchy-Tribune News Service

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — You know that feeling — your stomach is in your throat — when you’re on a roller coaster and you take that first big plunge? Your insides are crawling or you’re losing feeling in your legs, and you think it’s just nerves. But NASA scientist and trained astronaut Patricia Cowings says, no, it’s real.

“Your stomach and all of your guts are really floating up under your rib cage,” Cowings said. “And almost all fluids in your body move toward your head.” You’re experiencing for a split second what it’s like to be an astronaut in space. There’s a science of thrills, and it’s rooted in simple physiology and physics. The rides at state fairs and amusement parks that twist, twirl, hurl and drop you were very intentionally engineered to

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Bend developer Stephen Trono remained in critical condition at St. Charles Bend on Thursday, a day after his wife told police she shot him, mistaking him for an intruder. Trono’s condition has not changed since he was admitted to the hospital early Wednesday morning. Police were called to the northwest Bend home Trono, 60, shares with his wife, Angelicque, 39, and their children around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. Angelicque Trono said she was startled Stephen awake by a Trono was noise, and after shot at his her husband home early got up to invesWednesday, tigate, she shot and his wife has told police him because she thought he she fired at was a prowler. him because Police have she thought made no arhe was an rests but are intruder. keeping the investigation open — and are hopeful they’ll soon be able to talk to Stephen Trono. Bend police Lt. Ben Gregory said getting Trono’s version of events is crucial for the investigation. Detectives wrapped up their work at the home on Mount Shasta Drive on Wednesday — including using a metal detector to search the area around the house — but still have plenty of questions. “What we look at is, was this an intentional act, an act there was a defense for, a reckless act ... would it be reasonable for a reasonable person under those circumstances to react in a certain way,” he said. A handgun was seized from the house, but Gregory said he could not confirm that it was the weapon used in the shooting. See Shooting / A4

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Rocky and his handler, Sgt. Brad McMurrian, wandered the field. They had just passed a tree when Rocky spun back, diving into the bushes at the base of the tree. A man shouted out, “I give up! I give up!” McMurrian tells the story now as he looks back on Rocky’s five-year career

with the department. The story has the tinge of sadness, though, because the patrol dog has cancer and is expected to live for just a few more months. McMurrian noticed a lump on Rocky’s side in early July, and after tests were run, found out Rocky had terminal cancer. Rocky will receive treatment for his pain. McMurrian said Rocky will continue working despite his disease. Rocky, who McMurrian said loves working, keeps up his weekly training sessions and will still go out on calls. See Dog / A5

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Rocky sits with his handler, Redmond Police Sgt. Brad McMurrian. The two have worked together for almost five years, but Rocky was recently diagnosed with cancer and will likely die within months.

The Associated Press

NEW YORK — It was a cold night in 1947, during the infancy of the Cold War, when the anti-communist dissidents were hustled to a vehicle on a dark, deserted road in Budapest. As they were whisked out of Hungary that night, opposition leader Zoltan Pfeiffer, his wife and 5-year-old daughter did not know that their driver, James McCargar, was a covert agent for one of America’s most secretive espionage agencies, known simply as the Pond. See Pond / A4

take you to the edge. The swirling lights and spinning pods only hint at the chaos that was harnessed to create them. Consider the Tilt-A-Whirl. Richard Kautz, a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, studied the simple yet unpredictable motion of the classic carnival ride when he was on sabbatical 16 years ago. See Rides / A5

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