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LibertyBank closed, now Home Federal By Tim Doran The Bulletin
State banking regulators ordered the closure on Friday of Eugene-based LibertyBank, which traces its roots to Bend and had four branches in the city and one in Redmond.
All branches of LibertyBank, including the one in downtown Bend, are expected to open Monday as branches of Idaho-based Home Federal Bank.
Home Federal Bank, of Nampa, Idaho, acquired the assets of privately held LibertyBank, which became the second Oregon bank to be shut down in as many weeks and the sixth in the state to be closed since February 2009. See LibertyBank / A7
Ryan Brennecke The Bulletin
Developer shot more than once, friend says Family of critically injured Stephen Trono described as traumatized, puzzled
Fish intake confounds anglers
By Erin Golden The Bulletin
Bend developer Stephen Trono has undergone several surgeries to repair injuries he suffered when he was shot multiple times in the abdomen and the wrist, a friend and former business partner said Friday. Trono, 60, was hospitalized early Wednesday morning after he was shot by his wife, who told police she mistook her husband for an intruder in their home on Mount Shasta Drive. Angelicque Trono, 39, said she woke up when she heard a noise, and her husband went to Stephen investigate. Trono Police recovered a handgun from the house, but have not confirmed it was the weapon used in the shooting or how many times a gun was fired. Since Wednesday, Trono has been listed in critical condition at St. Charles Bend, where family members and friends have been keeping watch, said Patrick Gisler, a Bend businessman who’s been a friend of Trono’s for 25 years. Trono’s condition was very unstable on Wednesday evening, Gisler said, but has improved slightly after multiple surgeries. “They’ve been repairing holes, trying to mitigate the swelling in his abdominal area,” he said. See Shooting / A6
At Boy Scouts, a call to find the way back to relevance
Rob Kerr / The Bulletin
A motorboat on Lake Billy Chinook approaches the fish transfer facility in front of Round Butte Dam on Friday afternoon.
Goal is to bring Lower Deschutes closer to pre-dam days; fishing guides say warmer water caught them off guard
Warming up the Lower Deschutes By combining warmer water drawn from the surface of Lake Billy Chinook with cooler water from the bottom, the operators of the Round Butte Dam are attempting to restore downstream water temperatures to close to where they were before 1964, the year the dam was built. If they are successful, temperatures will be warmer during the spring and early summer than they have been over the last 46 years, but cooler from around Aug. 1 through the end of the year.
Temperature measurements at Madras gauging station 65° 60°
By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
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ifelong Maupin resident and fishing guide Nate Morris has long considered himself an authority on the ways of the river that runs through his hometown — until this year, that is. With the activation of a new fish transfer facility in April at the Round Butte Dam on Lake Billy Chinook, temperatures on portions of the Lower Deschutes River are up 2 to 5 degrees over the historical average. The Round Butte project is part of an effort to return river conditions to the way they were before the dam was built in 1964, including elevated water temperatures in spring and early summer and cooler temperatures in late summer and fall. Warmer temperatures in recent months have disrupted the once-predictable hatching of aquatic insects, a primary food source for fish in the
Lower Deschutes, leaving anglers and guides like Morris unsure when and where the fish will be biting. “People come from all over the world to fish the Lower Deschutes,” Morris said. “I had some guys showing up from back east on June 10, and I had to tell them there weren’t any bugs left. … As a guide who’s making my living out here being an expert on the river, it can make it a bit difficult.” A project of Portland General Electric and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the $110 million fish and water intake at Round Butte Dam was conceived as a way of bringing back chinook and steelhead that once migrated up the Deschutes, Crooked and Metolius rivers before the dam was built. Until the fish passage was activated, all water that passed downstream from the dam had been drawn from the bottom of Lake Billy Chinook, between 220 and 260 feet below the surface. See Fishing / A6
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Calculation of pre-dam water temperatures
New York Times News Service
Actual 1997 temperature
FORT A.P. HILL, Va. — Her crown glinting in the morning sun, Miss America was telling 45,000 Boy Scouts and their leaders the other day how thrilled she was to be here at the National Scout Jamboree, to be among “the most amazing young women ...” Whoops! The scouts, ever courteous and kind, could nonetheless barely stifle a collective groan. Some covered their faces in embarrassment. Miss America — Caressa Cameron, the former Miss Virginia — quickly recovered, apologized and explained that she usually speaks to groups of young women. The slip was an inadvertent reminder of a host of issues, including whether to admit girls, that the Boy Scouts of America faces this year as it celebrates its 100th anniversary. See Scouts / A6
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How the water blends are created Fish tower
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Surface intake
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Surface water and water drawn from the bottom are Round Butte Dam blended to regulate the temperature of the Lower Deschutes. Power tunnel
Deep intake
More vets turn to suicide hot line
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Source: Pacific Gas and Electric Andy Zeigert / The Bulletin
By James Dao New York Times News Service
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Correction In stories about the Deschutes County Fair that appeared Friday, July 30, on Pages A1 and C1, information was incorrect. The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. today, and the fair ends Sunday. The Bulletin regrets the errors.
AFGHANISTAN: July is deadliest month for U.S., Page A2
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Obituaries
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CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Melanie Poorman swiveled in her chair and punched a button on the phone. The caller, a thirtysomething Iraq war veteran, had recently broken up with his girlfriend and was watching a movie, “Body of War,” that was triggering bad memories. He started to cry. And, oh yeah, he had a shotgun nearby. Could someone please come and take it away, he asked. Poorman, 54, gently coaxed the man into unloading the weapon. As a co-worker called the police, she stayed on the line, talking to him about his girlfriend, his work, the war. See Hot line / A7