Bulletin Daily Paper 10/25/10

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Deputy DAs Bend man’s disappearance an enduring mystery will have to reapply for their jobs THE DAN CARTER CASE

By Erin Golden The Bulletin

Until last month, Dan Carter’s life had never been much of a mystery to the people who know him best. He’d always been the kind of guy with a schedule like clockwork: Up early for breakfast, to work by 6:30 or 7 a.m., back home to watch some TV before turning in early, usually by 6:30 p.m. Once in a while, he’d take a quick trip to the other side of the mountains, but

on weekends, he usually didn’t venture far from home in Bend. He’d play golf, shop for new additions to his sports card collection, make a weekly call to his mother. When he didn’t turn up for work on Sept. 27, it didn’t take long for people to worry. Weeks later, after an investigation that included extensive searches from Bend to Eugene didn’t turn up any trace of Carter or his car, they’re still worried — and looking for answers.

Sunday, Carter’s 37th birthday, marked a month since he was last seen. “It’s kind of like he just vanished,” said Carter’s roommate, Shawn Criswell.

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If there’s anything Carter’s friends and family know for sure, it’s that he’s the last person they’d expect to take off for a big adventure without telling anyone. See Missing / A4

You can help

Anyone who has seen Dan Carter or his car, a white 1995 Subaru Legacy wagon with Oregon license plate 088 DJV, is asked to call the Bend Police Department at the non emergency dispatch number, 541-693-6911.

New Deschutes DA has been planning to shake up staffing By Nick Grube

Whacking weeds in Mirror Pond

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If Deschutes County prosecutors want to keep their jobs, they’ll have to apply just like anyone else by submitting a résumé and successfully completing an interview process with their future boss, incoming District Attorney Patrick Flaherty. In an e-mail sent to deputy district attorneys Saturday, Flaherty outlined his plans for appointing prosecutors when he takes over in January. He mentions he’s already received applications from other Oregon attorneys who are interested in working for him. “I want to Flaherty, who was elected in consider the May after beating longtime in- experience cumbent Mike Dugan, has made pool in the clear he intends to make staffing DA’s Office changes in the District Attorney’s before I make Office. The e-mail seems to be appointments one more indication of how he in January. I aims to do that. want to make “I want to consider the experi- sure each of ence pool in the DA’s Office before (the deputy I make appointments in January,” DAs) has that Flaherty said Sunday, about why opportunity to he wants current prosecutors to come in and apply for positions in his office. “I talk with me.” want to make sure each of them — Patrick has that opportunity to come in Flaherty, and talk with me.” incoming In the e-mail, Flaherty states Deschutes he has been contacted by a num- County DA ber of deputy district attorneys who wanted to know how he would makes appointments to his office. He tells them that if they “wish to be considered for appointment,” they should send him a letter indicating they want to stay in the office, along with a résumé, within the next week. See DAs / A4

Ann Maddox had to wait to return to her Fayetteville, N.C., home after her cancer treatments.

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John Sarmiento operates an aquatic weed harvester to cut down some of the weeds near the Drake Park footbridge in Mirror Pond.

Bend Park & Recreation District teams up with California company to reduce aquatic vegetation

By Nick Grube and Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin

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or the past several days, a large, paddlewheeled oddity chugged back and forth along Mirror Pond, causing a number of people to pause as they crossed the Drake Park footbridge. This strange white gizmo, as one passer-by described it, moved tediously through the water, churning up clump after clump of mushy, green vegetation that would later be loaded onto a flatbed trailer and hauled away. Some wondered aloud if this was part of a long-overdue plan to dredge Mirror Pond, while

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others thought it was a means to collect trash that had been dumped in the water. “Some people have hardly ever seen this before,” said Tommy San Nicolas, as he stood on the footbridge Sunday watching his co-worker John Sarmiento steer the boat through the pond. “If I saw this for the first time, I’d be curious, too.” San Nicolas works for Aquatic Environments, based out of Northern California, and he said his company is working with the Bend Park & Recreation District to remove underwater vegetation that has sprouted up on the bottom of Mirror Pond. See Weeds / A5

Thyroid cancer patients must shield others from radiation after treatment By Matthew L. Wald New York Times News Service

Chilean miners didn’t leave all their hardships underground By Alexei Barrionuevo and Simon Romero New York Times News Service

COPIAPO, Chile — Jose Ojeda can barely sleep without the comfort of a miner nearby to confide in when dreams shake him awake. Omar Reygadas, a great-grandfather

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more used to comforting than being comforted, cries easily. And Edison Pena, the miner who kept himself grounded by running miles underground most days, was hospitalized last week for emotional distress. It has been 12 days since viewers around the globe watched as, one

by one, the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose Mine here were pulled from nearly half a mile underground. While the world has begun to move on, the men left behind are just starting to grapple with the enormousness of what happened to them. See Miners / A4

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WASHINGTON — Doctors told Ann Maddox that she had thyroid cancer and that the cure was to swallow radioactive iodine, to kill the malignant cells. She traveled 500 miles from her home in Fayetteville, N.C., for treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Then began a problem: What do you do when you cannot go home — and you are radioactive? There are about 40,000 new cases of thyroid cancer a year, and most patients are treated with radiation, which makes them potentially dangerous to other people for up to a week. The question of where they should spend that time is drawing new concern from doctors, public health officials and regulators. See Radiation / A5

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ELECTION: Races for governor turn ugly, Page A3

HAITI: Cholera menaces capital, Page A3


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