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What’s to become of Jeld-Wen’s resorts?
Prosecutor facing wife of DA-elect sees conflict Deputy DA worries for job, but defense lawyer insists professionalism will triumph By Erin Golden The Bulletin
Eagle Crest Resort
By David Holley and Ed Merriman The Bulletin
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hile Jeld-Wen, a Klamath Falls-based window and door manufacturer with a hearty stake in Northwest resorts, has put five of its properties up for sale, the company remains tight-lipped about future plans. The Oregonian first reported Thursday that Jeld-Wen hopes to sell five of its properties by the end of the year, including two in Central Oregon, according to sales literature for the resorts. The sales document is targeted at potential buyers for Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond; Brasada Ranch in Powell Butte; the Running Y Ranch “This is a doorsresort and neighboring RidgeWater residential community in Klamath Falls; and Silver Mounand-windows tain Resort in Kellogg, Idaho. All would be sold company saying, together. Jeld-Wen spokeswoman Teri Cline would not ‘We shouldn’t be confirm reports the properties are for sale. involved in this “Jeld-Wen considers acquisitions and divestitures both in up-cycles and down-cycles as part business.’ ” of our normal strategic assessments of our busi— Kirk Schueler, Brooks ness,” Cline wrote in an e-mail Friday. “However we do not comment on where we may or may Resources Corp. not be at any given time, nor do we acknowledge speculation or rumors.” The sales document, which was prepared by the firms Colliers International and PKF Capital, tells potential buyers that the process will be efficient. In October, Jeld-Wen planned to give tours of the resorts, and by November or December, it expects to complete a deal, the document says. Combined, the five properties generated more than $100 million in annual revenue from 2005 through 2007, the document says. Though an answer about Jeld-Wen’s intentions isn’t available from the company, experts say the potential sale is likely a partial reaction to the economy. If Jeld-Wen is choosing to sell the resorts, it could mean the international company with 20,000 employees and more than $2 billion in revenues might be turning away from ancillary industries it grew into, said Kirk Schueler, president of Bendbased Brooks Resources Corp. See Jeld-Wen / A7
Brasada Ranch
U.S. hears echo of the economic woes facing Japan
Running Y Ranch
Jeld-Wen properties Silver Mountain Resort Seattle
Spokane Cle Elum
Kellogg
By Martin Fackler and Steve Lohr New York Times News Service
Suncadia Resort Not listed in sales material
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Portland Yarrow Shares sold in 2009
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TOP: Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond. MIDDLE: Brasada Ranch in Powell Butte. BOTTOM: The main intersection at the Running Y Ranch resort in Klamath Falls. The three resorts are among properties Klamath Falls-based Jeld-Wen has put up for sale.
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Concerns about incoming Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty’s plans for his staff have spilled over into the courtroom, in at least one case. This week, Deputy District Attorney Jody Vaughan filed a court document that references Flaherty’s recent communication with current Deschutes County prosecutors — and suggests that she might not be able to prosecute a case in which the defense attorney is Flaherty’s wife, Valerie Wright. The affidavit was filed Wednesday in Deschutes County Patrick Circuit Court in the more-than-2- Flaherty year-old case of a Redmond man charged with multiple counts of rape, sex abuse and other crimes. In it, Vaughan wrote that she’d contacted legal counsel at the Oregon State Bar because she wasn’t sure how to move forward after receiving an e-mail from Flaherty a few days earlier. In the e-mail, sent to Vaughan and 14 other deputy district attorneys, Flaherty wrote that current deputies would need to submit applications if they were interested in keeping their jobs after he takes office in January. Flaherty unseated longtime District Attorney Mike Dugan in the May election. Several months later, he notified Chief Deputy District Attorney Darryl Nakahira that he would no longer be employed in January and later made comments about additional staffing changes in the office. In response, prosecutors voted to form a union and began negotiating with the county. See DA / A6
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TOKYO — In the annals of economic policy blunders, the one in which Hiroshi Kato played a hand in early 1997 ranks among the biggest in recent Japanese history. Inside Kato led a government advi• Latest report sory committee that concluded offers little that the economy, which was immediate then finally starting to rebound relief, from the collapse of its 1980s Page C3 land and stock bubbles, was healthy enough to raise the national consumption tax to 5 percent from 3 percent. Aimed at reducing deficits, the tax increase instead quickly snuffed out the fragile recovery, pushing Japan to the brink of a financial meltdown and thrusting the nation deeper into the economic morass from which it has yet to emerge even today. See Economy / A6
Child smuggling rampant after Haiti quake
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By Gerardo Reyes and Jacqueline Charles
INDEX Business
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Community B1-6
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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Sports
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Classified
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Crossword B5, E2
Movies
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Stocks
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Editorial
Obituaries
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Weather
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OUANAMINTHE, Haiti — The long-legged young man in a black jacket and shorts carries a child under each arm, given to him on the Haitian side of the border. He steps into the calm waters of the Massacre River and in less than 10 strides,
without getting wet above the knees, he’s in the Dominican Republic. It’s market day on the border, a chaotic scene where thousands of buyers and sellers pour into this bi-national market, and it provides the perfect cover for the smuggling of children. See Trafficking / A7