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Man arrested in slaying of Roberta Jones
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Police say Jones, found near Bachelor, was shot multiple times
• FUTURE: Tour event likely gone from Sunriver
By Erin Golden The Bulletin
A Sunriver-area man was arrested Thursday in the kidnapping and murder of 28-year-old Roberta “Bobbie” Jones, whose body was found Saturday in a forested area near Mt. Bachelor. Michael Shawn Sain, 30, was already in custody on unrelated charges when he was arrested on suspicion of criminal homicide, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree robbery and second-degree Michael abuse of a corpse, among other Shawn Sain crimes. Police also revealed on Thursday that Jones, who also lived in the Sunriver area, died after being shot multiple times. Lt. Ben Gregory of the Bend Police Department said investigators believe Jones was killed in a duplex on Northeast Dawson Drive in Bend. Roberta Jones Police were called to that address the morning of Aug. 5 after someone who was a frequent visitor to the home found what police have only described as “evidence of foul play.” Detectives expanded the search to the Fall River area, where an Oregon State Police trooper spotted a green 1992 Infiniti Q45 with a missing hood believed to be linked to Jones. On Saturday, a Mt. Bachelor security guard spotted Jones’ body near a spur road off U.S. Forest Service Road 45. See Jones / A4
By Zack Hall The Bulletin
The 2010 Tradition will likely be the last one played in Central Oregon after the professional golf tournament’s title sponsor — Jeld-Wen — opted not to renew its contract with the PGA Tour. Jeld-Wen Inc., the Klamath Falls-based window and door manufacturer, announced Thursday that it will not renew its contract with the PGA Tour to remain the title sponsor of The Tradition. Jeld-Wen has been the tournament’s title sponsor since 2003. Jeld-Wen’s decision leaves an uncertain future for the Champions Tour tournament, a major championship on the 50-and-over circuit that since 2007 has been played every August at Sunriver Resort’s Crosswater Club. The tournament has brought to Central Oregon the likes of World Golf Hall of Famers Tom Watson, Gary Player, Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw. Bill Hueffner, director of development and professional relations for Jeld-Wen, said that the company’s goal of gaining better brand recognition was a driving factor for signing on to the golf tournament. That goal has been accomplished, he said, and the sputtering economy has prompted the company to part ways with The Tradition. See Tradition / A5
• IMPACT: Potential loss of money, exposure is huge By David Holley The Bulletin
Given Klamath Falls-based Jeld-Wen’s decision to quit its role as title sponsor of the Jeld-Wen Tradition, Central Oregon is at the precipice of losing one its largest annual events. The Tradition results in an estimated $7 million to $9 million annual economic impact in the area, said Alana Audette, president and CEO of the Central Oregon Visitors Association and a member of the Central Oregon Advisory Council for the tournament. Volunteers, competitors, their family members, spectators and vendors flock to Sunriver for the tournament, resulting in hotel room rentals, busy restaurants and other direct economic impacts, she said. There are indirect impacts, too, like national television coverage that results in future tourism, Audette said. See Impact / A5
Russian who just wants to go home says he’s no spy By Peter Baker New York Times News Service
LONDON — Call him the spy who wants to go home again. Except that Igor Sutyagin insists he is not a spy. And his friends warn him not to go home again. “Everybody but one,” he said, “tells me run from that country.” That country is Russia, where he was locked up for 11 years for working for a British consulting firm that Moscow called a CIA front. Plucked from the bowels of Igor Sutyagin a Russian prison camp, Sutyagin was freed last month in a dramatic spy swap arranged by the U.S. president even as America denied he had been a spy. Sutyagin has had a decade to think about where he went awry, how sending foreigners information about the Russian military gleaned from newspapers could be taken for treason. See Russian / A4
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Golfers practice on a putting green at Sunriver Resort’s Crosswater Club at the 2009 Jeld-Wen Tradition, a major championship on the Champions Tour. Jeld-Wen announced Thursday that the Klamath Falls-based company will not extend its title sponsorship agreement with the PGA Tour beyond 2010, leaving the fate of the tournament in doubt.
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February 2003: Jeld-Wen signs deal with PGA Tour to become title sponsor of The Tradition and announces the tournament will move to the Portland area from Arizona, where it had been played from the tournament’s inception in 1989. August 2003: First JeldWen Tradition is played at the Reserve Vineyards & Golf Club in Aloha. Tom Watson wins with a birdie on the tournament’s final hole.
July 2006: Jeld-Wen announces it has extended its title sponsorship of The Tradition for four more years and will move the tournament to Sunriver Resort’s Crosswater Club. August 2006: Jeld-Wen Tradition played for the last time at The Reserve. Eduardo Romero wins in a playoff against Lonnie Nielsen.
August 2007: Tradition played at Crosswater for first time. Mark McNulty wins the tournament by five strokes. September 2007: Mike Lee, the vice president of Portland-based Peter Jacobsen Sports, which has managed the event since 2003, steps down as Tradition tournament director.
January 2008: Evan Byers, who had managed the Nationwide Tour’s Utah EnergySolutions Championship in Sandy, Utah, since 2000, is hired by Peter Jacobsen Sports as Tradition tournament director. August 2008: Fred Funk wins Tradition by three strokes.
November 2008: The Jeld-Wen Tradition Foundation, a board made up largely of the tournament’s major sponsors, terminates its management contract with Peter Jacobsen Sports in an effort to save costs. February 2009: Jeld-Wen Tradition Foundation board rehires Peter Jacobsen Sports, under more favorable terms, to manage the tournament through 2010.
August 2009: Mike Reid beats John Cook in a sudden-death playoff in what appeared to be the best-attended final round since The Tradition moved to Central Oregon. Thursday: Jeld-Wen announces it will not extend its agreement beyond 2010 to be the title sponsor of The Tradition.