Bulletin Daily Paper 08/23/10

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Funk takes Tradition

Players bid farewell to Crosswater

Fred Funk, right, shaking hands with Chien Soon Lu, who tied for 2nd, wins once more in Sunriver

SPORTS, C1

WEATHER TODAY

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Failed Sisters schools part of web of shifted funds

Deschutes may ease wind power

ROOSTER ROCK FIRE

By Patrick Cliff The Bulletin

When three Sisters charter schools collapsed in March and April, there were more questions than answers for the dozens of students left without a school and a handful of teachers without jobs. Those questions grew bigger when student records were locked away for about two months, making it difficult for those students to transfer to new schools. But audits recently obtained by The Bulletin and interviews help explain some of the reasons behind the disappearance of the schools — Sisters Charter Academy of Fine Arts, Sisters AllPrep Web Academy and Sisters Early College Academy.

Schools gave one another advances The audits reveal a practice among the 10 loosely affiliated AllPrep schools of giving one another cash advances and of leaving shared services unpaid for. The money was transferred through Clackamas-based EdChoices, which every AllPrep school contracted with to handle administrative functions. See AllPrep / A6

Proposal would speed permit process for smaller turbines By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

Pete Erickson / The Bulletin file photo

Mount Hood Initial Attack crew members Rusty Smith, left, and Sean Martin mop up an area near a house at the east end of the Rooster Rock Fire earlier this month near Road 16 in the Sisters area. Nearly $1.5 million was spent on Type 2 hand crews, which include initial attack crews.

Rooster Rock spending

BREAKDOWN Hand crews a large part of $5.7M spent to contain blaze By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin

New Orleans sees influx of Hispanics By Ylan Q. Mui The Washington Post

NEW ORLEANS — Five years after Hurricane Katrina, the ongoing rebuilding of the Big Easy has created a new community of Latino immigrants in this famously insular city, redrawing racial lines in a town long defined by black and white. The change began within weeks of a storm that decimated homes and upended lives in one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. The number of black residents dropped as many left for Baton Rouge, La., Houston and other places.

Cultural impact While the overall numbers of Hispanics aren’t huge, they continue to grow and have had an outsize impact on the culture of this proudly eccentric city and on how people here view their home town. More than threequarters of the 1.1 million residents in the New Orleans area were born in the state. Many locals still point to long-defunct businesses as landmarks. Recipes at some beloved restaurants haven’t changed in 40 years. See New Orleans / A6

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John Scarborough began lobbying Deschutes County commissioners last fall to change county code, so he could install wind turbines on his 10 acres of land northeast of Bend. A year later, Scarborough is frustrated that he still has not been able to put in the turbines. “I may not be alive by the time they get it approved,” Scarborough said. Wind energy tax credits and grants might disappear by the time the county makes it possible to install turbines, Scarborough said. But a county proposal to ease the way for wind energy is moving ahead, with a hearing at the county Planning Commission at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The proposed wind energy ordinance would allow property owners outside cities with at least one acre to bypass land use processes and obtain a building permit for turbines up to 36 feet tall, as long as they install the turbines at a distance away from all property lines of a least one-and-a-half times the structure’s height. However, even small-scale wind turbines must often be higher off the ground so the wind is not obstructed by trees or tall structures. Literature on small wind energy systems says they should be between 30 feet and 100 feet tall in order to be effective, said county Principal Planner Peter Gutowsky. See Wind / A4

The money spent fighting a fire isn’t just spent on fire crews, engines and hoses. The Rooster Rock Fire that burned south of Sisters earlier this month cost $5.7 million to fight, said Tom Knappenberger, spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service. And big parts of that total went to aircraft to help contain the blaze, support personnel, and the food, showers and services needed for the crews on the ground. The Rooster Rock Fire, at its peak, had about

1,000 people working to contain it. The recent fire was typical of most fires in terms of where money was spent, said Chris Hoff, with the Central Oregon Fire Management Service, although Rooster Rock Fire’s aviation costs were probably a bit more than usual. “Normally our highest costs are the aviation costs and the hand crews,” Hoff said. “This one had a pretty high aviation cost, mainly because we dropped a lot of retardant on it early, in the first day or two, and that’s pretty costly.” Each fire’s costs are different, said

Heather Fisher, with the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center, depending on where it’s burning, whether it’s threatening structures, and the resources that officials can call in — some crews, for instance, cost more than others based on experience. “They just used the resources that were available, and did what they needed to do to put the fire out,” Fisher said.

Women taking the lead in global nuclear policy

Kate Ramsayer can be reached at 541-617-7811 or at kramsayer@bendbulletin.com.

By Mary Beth Sheridan The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — When Rose Gottemoeller began negotiating the new nuclear treaty with Moscow, the U.S. diplomat got questions on the usual topics: missile defense, warheads, inspections. And then there was this one from the Russian generals: “How come you’ve got so many women?” To the Russians’ astonishment, an array of American women faced them across the negotiating table. Gottemoeller led the American team during the negotiations, which concluded in March. Her deputy was Marcie Ries, another diplomat. The top two U.S. scientists were female. And helping to close the deal on the New START agreement was Ellen Tauscher, a State Department undersecretary and former congresswoman. The U.S. delegation reflected a little-noticed shift in the tough-guy world of national security. Twenty-five years after White House aide Donald Regan famously opined that women were “not going to understand throw-weights,” American females clearly get nuclear policy. They also run it. Or a lot of it, anyway. Women hold senior nuclear positions at the Pentagon and White House. Search out the old office of Gen. Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project’s “Indispensable Man,” and you will find a woman. She is Karin Look, who helped oversee the dismantling of Libya’s nuclear weapons program. See Nuclear / A4

How much did the Rooster Rock Fire cost?*

AIR SUPPORT $301,000 Airtankers, planes that drop fire retardant $58,000 Fixed wing, planes that coordinate air resources $347,000 Type 1 helicopters, heavy helicopters that can carry around 700 gallons of water $44,000 Type 2 helicopters, medium helicopters that can carry around 300 gallons of water $148,000 Type 3 helicopters, light helicopters that can carry around 100

gallons of water

knock down trees

FIREFIGHTERS

SUPPORT

$21,000 Hand crews, typically made up of 20 firefighters $446,000 Type 1 hand crews, more experienced hotshot crews $1,484,000 Type 2 hand crews, often initial attack crews and crews that build fire line and mop up

$335,000 Personnel, support staff, from media and community notification to finance and planning $53,000 Camp crews, workers at the camp, who set up, clean up, etc. $289,000 Caterer $71,000 Facilities, including port-a-potties, hand-washing stations, trailers, costs to use Sisters Middle School $210,000 Other equipment, Support, Vehicles, including

EQUIPMENT $184,000 Dozers/lowboys, bulldozers and the trucks to transport them $508,000 Engines $171,000 Water tenders $20,000 Other equipment, including feller bunchers that

rented vehicles for people who don’t have their own, and to shuttle gear $8,000 Medical $29,000 Showers $267,000 Supplies, including items like hose, fire tools, chainsaws, batteries and other equipment used, replaced or repaired during the fire $127,000 Support tenders/ equipment, Forest Service’s trucks that spray water to keep the dust down *Total does not include all expenses that added up to $5.7 million. The Bulletin file photos

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