Bulletin Daily Paper 09/30/10

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Rifle deer season nears

Refreshing hike Soda Creek a quiet option

Hunters prepare for noisy stalking conditions on Saturday • SPORTS, D1

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WEATHER TODAY

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Abundant sunshine, unseasonably warm High 87, Low 40 Page C6

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Conger’s vision for office Republican details goals for state representative FOCUS ON 54

By Cindy Powers The Bulletin

One of Jason Conger’s campaign mantras is “government should live within its means.” The Bend lawyer and Republican is one of two challengers to state Rep. Judy Stiegler, a Democrat for the House District 54 seat representing Bend and Deschutes River Woods. Unaffiliated Bend real estate investment firm owner Mike Kozak also is vying

for the seat. The Bulletin has followed the three candidates and reviewed their ads, websites, candidate statements and claims they’ve made on the campaign trail. All three sat for in-depths interviews in which they were asked to give specifics about the things they’ve said.

Bubonic plague case diagnosed in Oregon

Tax and fee increases At his campaign appearances, Conger criticizes Stiegler for voting “yes” on 38 of 39 tax and fee increases. Stiegler doesn’t deny those 38 votes, though she says there were 40 bills, but says several had bipartisan support including a fee put on mortgage and deed filings to help fund affordable housing. See Conger / A4

ELECTION 2010: DISTRICT 54 As the race for House District 54 marches on, The Bulletin weighs the records and claims of the candidates, then profiles each of them on Sunday.

Judy Stiegler Today: Jason Conger Friday: Mike Kozak

By Patrick Cliff

Sunday: Candidate profiles If you missed a story, visit www.bendbulletin.com/dist54

Redmond education gets face-lift

By Markian Hawryluk The Bulletin

A Lake County resident has been diagnosed with a case of bubonic plague — the first in Oregon since 1995 — state and county public health officials have confirmed. “Our current case is a person who was actually seen at the physician’s office for what we call bubos, or lymph nodes that are swollen,” said Dr. Emilio DeBess, Oregon State Public Health Veterinarian and an epidemiologist. “The physician ended up getting blood tests that revealed to us about 10 days ago that the person had yersinia (pestis) or plague.” Officials would not reveal the individual’s name or location citing patient privacy reasons. The Bulletin was able to confirm that the patient was seen by Lesa Cahill, a family nurse practitioner in Lakeview and diagnosed by Dr. John Chunn, a pediatrician and infectious disease expert from Central Oregon Pediatric Associates in Bend. See Plague / A5

TOP NEWS INSIDE TERROR: After Times Square bombing attempt, Faisal Shahzad contacted Taliban, Page A3

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Photos by Pete Erickson / The Bulletin

Iron worker Donald McNown walks across the roof of the new Redmond High School Wednesday. Many of the walls are standing at the school site, and crews are working to have the roof in place before winter.

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REDMOND — Redmond city officials have recently voiced concerns that a shortage in power capacity could harm local economic development efforts. While there are still power concerns, they can be overcome — for a cost in the millions. The concerns began with Facebook’s decision to open a data center in Prineville. The social network’s center “There is no shares a power line capacity for larger that extends from a substation near the users. It has to Redmond reroute, be built.” through Powell Butte and into Prineville. — Roger Lee, The line still has ca- executive director, pacity, but it couldn’t Economic Development accept another for Central Oregon Facebook, which may use power equal to about 75 percent of the entire city of Redmond’s power usage, according to Redmond City Manager David Brandt. Facebook’s arrival has used up some of the capacity on the line running east of Redmond, but it has not, as city officials worried, strained the region’s power capacity. The next large power user along that line, however, would likely have to pay for a new, larger line as well as a substation — a cost that could reach $5 million. Rumors, Brandt said, have been passing through the area since Facebook’s decision and he was happy to find out the reality was not as dire as he had heard. See Redmond / A4

“We are sickened that anyone in our society, such as the students allegedly responsible for making the surreptitious video, might consider destroying others’ lives as a sport.” — Steven Goldstein, chairman, Garden State Equality

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n Wednesday, Sage Elementary held a dedication ceremony, which included student-led tours touting the new building’s features. The new building has two-story walls of windows at the end of each wing and a stateof-the-art playground. The 600-student school is located in southwest Redmond. Also in that part of the city, the school district is building a second high school. This one is designed for 1,400 students and will house a new career technical wing, with room for a dental career lab. The school, with a budget of about $80 million, is scheduled to open in time for the 2012-13 school year. The bond has also paid for several other district projects. Over the summer, for example, Terrebonne Community School underwent an expansion that transformed the school into a modern building with a two-story classroom wing. — Bulletin staff report

Redmond concerned with energy stability

Private moment made public leads to a fatal jump By Lisa W. Foderaro New York Times News Service

Sage Elementary in Redmond opened at the start of this school year and was built with money from the bond school district voters passed in 2008. Fifth graders Garrett Pinkerton, 10, left, and Mason Thomas, 10, lead Redmond Chamber of Commerce & CVB President Chuck Reponen and Redmond City Councilor Joe Centanni, right, on a tour of the newly opened Sage Elementary School.

It started with a Twitter message Sept. 19: “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.” That night, the authorities say, the Rutgers University student who sent the message used a camera in his dormitory room to stream the roommate’s intimate encounter live on the Internet. And three days later, the roommate who had been surreptitiously broadcast — Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman and an accomplished violist — Tyler jumped from the George Wash- Clementi ington Bridge into the Hudson River in an apparent suicide. The Sept. 22 death, which the authorities disclosed Wednesday, was the latest by a young American that followed the online posting of hurtful material. The news came on the same day that Rutgers kicked off a two-year, campuswide project to teach the importance of civility, with special attention to bullying and the use and abuse of new technology. Those who knew Clementi — on the Rutgers campus in Piscataway, N.J., at his North Jersey high school and in a community orchestra — were anguished by the circumstances surrounding his death, describing him as intensely devoted musician who was sweet and shy. See Privacy / A5


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