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Quiet, please. Golfers at work Employment issues raised at DA’s office
By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
SUNRIVER — Each day at the Jeld-Wen Tradition, John Downing keeps a quiet watch over the people crowded around the first tee box. With a steady gaze, Downing looks back and forth and tries to prevent noise before it happens. Downing, 72, is one of the tournament’s marshals, in charge of ensuring a hush falls over the crowd at the right time. Throughout the weekend, 120 marshals will be spread around the course, and in their matching shirts they’ll serve as a simple reminder that this is a game heavy with etiquette and rules. And the top piece of etiquette? Quiet, please. After all, it’s hard enough to swing a stick at a ball, hit that ball and have it go exactly where you want it to go. It’s a lot harder when the people around you are making loud noises and walking around in your line of sight. See Tradition / A6
Last month, a group of deputy district attorneys filed a petition with the state to As the Deschutes County District At- create a collective bargaining group. Suptorney’s Office gears up for its first lead- porters of the proposed bargaining group ership transition in 25 years, employ- have not commented on what prompted ment has become a hot topic for some the move, but a July 6 letter from Dugan deputy district attorneys. to Flaherty suggests that emIn May, Bend attorney Patrick ployees of the District Attorney’s Flaherty — a onetime Deschutes Office had been “hearing many County prosecutor — unseated rumors of your intent to release District Attorney Mike Dugan, or fire members of this staff.” who was first elected to the posiThis week, one staff member, tion in 1986. Chief Deputy District Attorney Since the election, Flaherty Darryl Nakahira, received a has not publicly discussed his Patrick letter from Flaherty outlining a plans for the 18 prosecutors who Flaherty more specific plan. currently work under Dugan, In the short letter, dated but there have been some indiAug. 17, Flaherty wrote that cations that he intends to make changes. he had not heard from Nakahira since There are also signs that some deputy the election, and added that Nakahira district attorneys are concerned about would no longer be an employee in the what will happen when Flaherty takes District Attorney’s Office beginning in office in January — and that some are January. split over a recent effort to unionize. See Employment / A8
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Matthew Parson, 47, left, and his son Tyler Parson, 17, of Veneta, quiet the crowd as Jerry Pate putts on the 15th green Friday at Crosswater Club in Sunriver.
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Trusts, new income pull Redmond pet shelter back from the brink of closure
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By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin
The Redmond Humane Society is getting closer to climbing out of debt and operating in the black for the first time in several years. In 2008, the shelter nearly closed, and a new board of directors eventually took over operations. The shelter had been operating with a roughly $72,000 annual shortfall and owed Deschutes County $1.4 million. Since then, the shelter has reduced its annual shortfall by about $67,000 and paid back nearly half of the county loan, according to Mike Daly, president of the board of directors and a former Deschutes County commissioner. To reach this relatively bright financial picture, the shelter has relied both on new revenue and on family trusts of which it is a beneficiary. The Alice Teater Trust and a Willamette Valley-based trust have so far given the shelter about $700,000. Income from both trusts is expected to pay off the Humane Society’s full county debt, Daly said. But in the last year, the shelter has also launched a thrift store, an RV park, new fundraisers, and a spay and neuter clinic. “We were way behind the 8 ball,” Daly said. The thrift store has succeeded beyond expectations, Daly said. The store, which opened on June 3, cost about $12,000 to open. In June, sales were over $22,334, with $13,400 net profit. In July, sales were at $16,800, according to a shelter presentation. See Humane / A7
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Robin Winchell, 32, left, and her friend Kerri Gladney, 33, both of Bend, share a laugh Friday while sampling an offering from Ninkasi Brewing of Eugene, during the Bend Brew Fest at the Les Schwab Amphitheater. “I’m glad we can bring our friends from out of town here and show them what Bend is all about,” Gladney said. Bend Brew Fest continues today from noon to 11 p.m. at the amphi-
theater. A required tasting mug costs $10 and includes four tokens, with additional tokens sold five for $5. Each 4-ounce taste costs one token. The event is otherwise free to enter. To find out what offerings are on tap from the 36 participating breweries, go to www.bendbrewfest.com and click on the “Brews+Brewers” link.
Wrong tube: Lax oversight leads to medical errors
Victims of bedbug infestations beginning to feel like pariahs By Emily B. Hager New York Times News Service
NEW YORK — Jeremy Sparig spent months fighting bedbugs. Now, to some people, he is like a mattress left on the street, something best avoided in these times. “They don’t want to hug you anymore; they don’t want you coming over,” said Sparig, of East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “You’re like a leper.”
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At the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, which recently had a bedbug breakout, defense lawyers are skittish about visiting, and it is not because of the fierce prosecutors. Even Steven Smollens, a housing lawyer who has helped many tenants with bedbugs, has his guard up. Those clients are barred from his office. “I meet outside,” he said. “There’s a Starbucks across the street.” See Bedbugs / A8
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Thirty-five weeks pregnant, Robin Rodgers was vomiting and losing weight, so her doctor hospitalized her and ordered that she be fed through a tube until the birth of her daughter. But in a mistake that stemmed from years of lax federal oversight of medical devices, the hospital mixed up the tubes. Instead of snaking a tube through Rodgers’ nose and into her stomach, the nurse instead coupled the liquid-food bag to a tube that entered a vein. See Tubes / A6
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