Bulletin Daily Paper 12/03/10

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Getting an early start

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Base deepening, but snowriders should stay cautious • SPORTS, D1

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WEATHER TODAY

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Mostly cloudy and cool through the day High 38, Low 18 Page C6

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Hunter recounts 4 days of peril in Ochoco By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

On Thanksgiving Day, Alan Hewitt set out on his horse, Vegas, to hunt for elk from the high ridges in the Ochoco National Forest. He grabbed an extra pair of gloves but left most of his survival kit, like the fire starting equipment,

at his camp. It was too bulky, and he was only planning to be away from his camp during the day. But it would be three nights and four days before Hewitt made it back to shelter. He was rescued Sunday afternoon. He was scheduled to leave the hospital last night.

Hewitt got to the forest on Monday, Nov. 22. At his camp he had a horse trailer for the two horses he had with him. There was also a camper, his truck, feed for the animals and food for him. He planned to spend a week at the camp hunting elk during the day. His wife wasn’t expecting him

Hunter Alan Hewitt, of Prineville, recovers at St. Charles Bend after being stranded for four days in the Ochoco National Forest.

home until Sunday. On Thursday afternoon, Hewitt’s horse lost her footing and slipped on a log. A branch smacked into the back of Hewitt’s neck. The horse eventually crashed to the ground, pinning Hewitt underneath her. See Rescue / A5

Dean Guernsey The Bulletin

Fans ready for Civil War

WINTER

Storms expected to pass over region Central Oregon residents should expect a reasonably clear and dry day today, as recent storms should be passing through the region and heading east. Rob Brooks, forecaster with the National Weather Service office in Pendleton, said it will be a brief break, before the region settles into about a week’s worth of stable weather. Temperatures should be fairly consistent over the next week, he said, with daytime highs in most of Central Oregon in the midto upper 30s and nighttime lows in the mid-20s. Brooks said it’s unlikely lower elevations will see significant accumulations of snow in the near future, though a few flurries should linger in the mountains and on mountain passes. Saturday evening through Monday, travelers driving toward The Dalles and the rest of the Columbia Basin should be on the lookout for freezing precipitation and slick roads. Friday night should be the coldest night in the near-term forecast, Brooks said, with low temperatures in Bend between 16 and 21 degrees. — Scott Hammers, The Bulletin

Cannabis clubs and clinics opening in Bend to provide treatment to the qualified By Nick Grube The Bulletin

Medical marijuana seems to be a burgeoning business in Bend. A new cannabis club is expected to open up next week on North East Division Street, and a second, similar establishment, has already secured a business license to do the same. Both places — the first of their kind in the city and about two blocks from one another — want to provide state-licensed cardholders a place where they can safely access medical marijuana. Inside One of the clubs and three new • Locations clinics will be places where phyof clubs sicians will provide medical evaland clinics, uations to prospective patients to Page A4 see if their ailments qualify them for alternative treatment. Some of these locations will even provide classes for patients who want to learn how to medicate themselves.

Businesses filling a niche Many of the operators of these places say the reason for the recent boom is that they feel like they’re filling a niche that has been left largely vacant in Central Oregon. Some have also said that last month’s failure of Measure 74, which would have allowed state-regulated medical marijuana dispensaries in Oregon and lost 791,186 to 627,016, has also brought the issue to the forefront. See Marijuana / A4

TOP NEWS INSIDE NUTRITION: House passes bill to improve school lunches, Page A3

INDEX Abby

E2

Business

B1-6

Calendar

E3

Classified Comics

Local Movies

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Obituaries

C5

F1-6

Science

A2

E4-5

Sports

D1-6

Crossword E5, F2

Stocks

B4-5

Editorial

Sudoku

Family

C4 E1-6

Horoscope

E5

E5

TV listings

E2

Weather

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ABOVE: Bend High School culinary teacher Louise Markland, left, compliments Summer Johnson, 15, on her University of Oregon outfit Thursday. Markland made it clear she is an Oregon State University fan by decorating her hallway entrance with a flag and an inflatable beaver. BELOW: Looking for a friendly way to show your allegiance in the Ducks/Beavers rivalry? Beginning at noon today, pumpkins will be shot at cars, one representing the Ducks and the other the Beavers. The pumpkin shooting will take place at the Pumpkin Company at 1250 N.E. Wilcox Ave., in Terrebonne. Call 541-771-8886 for more information.

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Microbe discovery raises possibility of new types of life By Eryn Brown and Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — After days of rampant speculation that NASA was on the cusp of revealing it had detected extraterrestrial life, the reality was slightly more down to Earth. A team of scientists revealed Thursday that they had found a remarkable quality in a bacterium growing quietly in California’s Mono Lake — it is the only known life form able to subsist on the otherwise deadly element arsenic. The organism even uses arsenic to build the backbone of its DNA. To researchers searching for life elsewhere in the universe, the discovery still qualified as a heavensent event. “I find this result delightful,” said Pamela Conrad, an astrobiologist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who wasn’t involved in the research. “It makes me expand my notion of what” life in the universe would need to sustain itself. See Arsenic / A2


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